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

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 03/13/2017 07:51 PM, Bruce, Henry wrote:

> I agree that leveraging the likes of 'npm install' will make life
> simpler but the problem with these operations is that they span a range
> of bitbake tasks. The reason we wrote an npm fetcher was to limit
> network access to the fetch task. This works in conjunction with an npm
> patch that enables the install command to run in the compile task
> without accessing the registry. Are you are proposing that we allow
> network access outside of the fetch task?

Yes, in a limited way. In addition to fetch, there would be a fetch_deps 
task, which is also allowed to access the network.

Alex