On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Samuel Stirtzel <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/10/25 Ross Burton <[email protected]>: >> On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 23:51 +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: >>> Has anyone tried to build MeeGo with Yocto? It looks like its starting >>> to mature a great deal as a project, lots of cross-platform support. >>> Any feedback on Yocto, OE, or Bitbake from this list? > > Hi Jeremiah, a colleague got parts of the Netbook UX running with > OpenEmbedded, but this was back at the time of OpenEmbedded classic. > Currently I mainly use OpenEmbedded Core, but lately I tried the new > Poky release and liked it. > Using a GUI (Hob) to get an overview of available packages is very > comfortable.
I saw that they've added a GUI front end for that. Should make it easier to use. > > Bitbake itself is a really smart program, using Autotools informations > that already exists for most packages makes it very easy to add new > software. > In example I took an already programmed Qt application and slightly > adjusted the makefile, used a basic recipe template and compiled it, > that's all and IMHO it is amazing. > Of course it is not always that simple, but for stand alone > applications that only provide a GUI and some logic it works well out > of the box. Fascinating. Thanks for the feedback! >> >> Starting to mature? Poky had been used in commercial products for >> several years when it was acquired by Intel in 2008. :) >> > Ross, looking at the realignment of OpenEmbedded Core and Yocto, IMO, > the new release was a great step forward. > Personally I pretty much like the process, in which Yocto benefits > from patches sent for OE Core and vice versa. > > Now and then I still wondered about why Intel didn't adapt Meego in > Yocto/Poky, because both are very interesting projects. > And right now I wonder where Meego will be in the future. Well there are a lot of people with @intel.com in their email addresses that seem to be involved in the project so perhaps we'll see some use of it in the future. With Tizen perhaps? Regards, Jeremiah _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
