Host-side tools

[Brad Bishop]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 08:03:17AM -0800, Patrick Venture wrote:
>Brad,
>
>It's my understanding that host-side tools that cooperate with bmc-side
>tools should be in the same repo,

Is this something I said at some point?  Where is this coming from?

>hence why the host-side blobs stuff is in phosphor-ipmi-flash.
>However, if I add any dependencies to the configuration for the
>BMC-side, those get in the way of configuring for the host-side.  Would
>it not make sense to sometimes have it split?  And if so, I would like
>to propose creating two repos, a blobs library host-side, and a flash
>tool host-side repo, so those can be neatly split and not have anything
>in their configuration file that's really bmc-side specific, like
>ipmid, or phosphor-dbus-interface, or something.

I can make a repo if you would like.  Just let me know what you would
like it called.

That said, I think you can also probably do this in the same repo, if
you wanted, by having different build targets - it might not make any
sense to try and build both applications with a single invocation of
configure - as you point out, they are being "configured" for vastly
different runtime environments.