[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] tools: get-toolchais: a tool to get cross-tools for all architectures

[Simon Glass]

Hi Joe,

On 19 May 2015 at 12:13, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> > Hi Masahiro,
> >
> > On 18 May 2015 at 23:04, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Simon,
> >>
> >>
> >> 2015-05-18 2:50 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> >>> Hi Masahiro,
> >>>
> >>> On 15 May 2015 at 22:58, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Joe,
> >>>> (added Simon)
> >>>>
> >>>> 2015-05-16 4:52 GMT+09:00 Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at gmail.com>:
> >>>>> Hi Masahiro-san,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Masahiro Yamada
> >>>>> <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
>
> 8< snip >8
>
> >>>>>> This tool intends to be more generic design without hard-coding such
> >>>>>> kernel.org things.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> To achieve that, this tool consists of two files:
> >>>>>> Python script (this file) and the database file containing URLs of
> >>> tarballs.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We just need to update the latter when new version compilers are
> >>> released
> >>>>>> (or better compilers are found.) The file is in the form of RFC 822 for
> >>>>>> easier editing.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any reason not to just maintain this list on the wiki. It seem this is
> >>>>> the primary issue for everyone... not figuring out how to download or
> >>>>> extract the toolchain.
> >>>>
> >>>> I can just note URLs down in README or wiki.
> >>>>
> >>>> Of course, everyone knows how to download a tarball and extract it, but
> >>>> isn't it more convenient to prepare a utility that can do everything for
> >>> you?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>> The script only uses Python libraries, not relies on external programs
> >>>>>> although it displays wget-like log when downloading tarballs. :-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It seems like using wget would be more appropriate. Why reinvent the
> >>> wheel?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> My intention was to not depend on particular external programs like wget,
> >>> curl.
> >>>>
> >>>> But, you are right, we should not reinvent the wheel.
> >>>>
> >>>> I will replace my implementation with a caller of wget.
> >>>
> >>> I think urllib2 is a better solution.
> >>
> >> Now I understand we must depend on "tar" anyway.
> >>
> >> So my first intention "no external program dependency"  seems impossible
> >> (at least on Python 2).
> >>
> >> I do not mind depending on wget, and it seems easier.
> >
> > Is wget always installed? Maybe urllib is better just in case.
>
> In my case I do some work on an old distro and on that machine I have
> wget, but not python 3.
>
> 8< snip >8

One option there might be Python 2 and urllib2 like buildman? In
general it is nice to support older platforms if we can as it reduces
friction.

Regards,
Simon