Re: [RFC] Proposal to add edk2-apps repository

["Ni, Ruiyu" <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>]

Mike,
It's a great idea to have another edk2-apps repo.

I have a question not quite related to this new repo but related to edk2-platforms repo.
There are many platforms in edk2 repo as well, like Ovmf, Emulator, Vlv2TbltDevicePkg.
What's your opinion/plan about these platforms?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> Kinney, Michael D
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 1:58 AM
> To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Subject: [edk2] [RFC] Proposal to add edk2-apps repository
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to propose the creation of a new repository called edk2-apps.  This
> repository would initially be used to host the following packages from the edk2
> repository:
> 
> * AppPkg
> * StdLib
> * StdLibPrivateInternalFiles
> 
> These 3 packages provide support for the libc along with applications that
> depend on libc.  None of the other packages in the edk2 repository use these
> packages, so these 3 package can be safely moved without any impacts to
> platform firmware builds.
> Build configurations that do use libc features can clone the edk2-apps repository
> and add it to PACKAGES_PATH.
> 
> The history of these 3 packages would be preserved when importing the content
> into edk2-apps.  After The import is verified, these 3 packages would be deleted
> from the edk2 repository.
> 
> This proposal helps reduce the size of the edk2 repository and focuses edk2
> repository on packages used to provide UEFI/PI conformant firmware.
> 
> If there are no concerns with this proposal, I will enter a Tianocore BZs for the
> two steps.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mike
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