[yocto] [Openembedded-architecture] Proposal: dealing with language-specific build tools/dependency management tools

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 03/10/2017 04:30 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> When integrating the CHICKEN Scheme support onto the Yocto Project we
> dealt it using their installation tool but making the package of
> individual packages (eggs, in this specific case) as individual
> recipes. We went further and automated the recipe generation and this
> made it quite easy to maintain in long term.
>
> Take a look at:
>
> https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-chicken

Thanks, even though my Scheme-fu isn't great :)

I'd like to avoid generating entire separate recipes though, because 
that implies your custom-written tool would be figuring out where the 
dependency source came from in the first place, and what are its own 
dependencies, when creating the recipe, which can be tricky, 
breakage-prone guesswork.

I want to use existing tools (like 'npm install') for getting the stuff 
from the network - we don't really need full recipes, we just want to 
know the licenses of the dependencies, and, if possible, lock them down 
to a specific version.

Alex