[yocto] RFC: templates in Hob 1.5

[Barros Pena, Belen]

On 02/04/2013 16:50, "Trevor Woerner" <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Barros Pena, Belen
><belen.barros.pena at intel.com> wrote:
>> But it seems to me there is
>> more interesting stuff buried somewhere in your answer, so I hope it's
>>ok
>> if I dig a little deeper.
>
>:-D
>
>> I think I might have asked the wrong question. Let's forget about the
>>word
>> "template" for a moment, and ask something a bit different: of the stuff
>> you select / configure when building an image with Hob, what would be
>> useful to save for reuse? Once we determine that, we can discuss how it
>> should be called ("template" could be the wrong word).
>
>When I use Hob to click on things here and there, I'm usually just
>playing around; just trying out some things. When I find some
>combination of things that I like, my instinct would be to
>compartmentalize that off into a layer: a particular grouping of
>packages would either be a DISTRO or an image, building something for
>a particular development board would be a BSP or a MACHINE (etc).
>
>In other words I think the "layer" concept completely captures
>whatever it is you're trying to capture with "templates".
>
>:-D
>
>If you're looking to integrate this functionality into Hob, maybe you
>need to look at some way of creating layers? Perhaps a user could save
>their package configuration as a DISTRO or in an image layer?

I like this answer much more :) Thanks, Trevor! This really helps.

Belen

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