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[Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Mattias Backman
<mattias.backman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Loïc Minier <lool@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>        Hey
>>
>>  The Android support in Linaro Image Tools feels like a second class
>>  citizen; it was a bit rushed in, and to my knowledge didn't get the
>>  chance to be architectured properly into linaro-image-tools so that it
>>  would be on equal footing with the Ubuntu-based images.
>>
>>  It would be nice to chance this so that it's clearly owned and well
>>  supported; how do we get this ball rolling?
>>
>>  AFAIK, the only spec on linaro-image-tools for next cycle is hwpackv2
>>  which is kind of unrelated.  Who would be interested in discussing
>>  evolutions to the design of the Android support in Linaro Image Tools
>>  and who would be interested in participating in the implementation?
>
> I would be interested in both aspects and I agree that something needs
> to be done so the two scripts don't diverge entirely. Whether it's a
> good idea that I spend time on this is of course up to James.

How bad is the maintainability for the android script for the time
being? e.g. how urgent is it?

With the info that we might change what artifacts we provide/install
in a 1-2 month timeframe, would a cleanup now still make sense in your
opinion?


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 - Alexander