[discussion] Do we really need meta-intel-iot-middleware? about meta-intel-edison

[htot]

I agree. I like to delete as much as possible, so if available from upstream keep (paho-mqtt replaced by paho-mqtt-c), if shutdown cloud service dependent remove (parse-embedded should be removed as well).

Not sure about xdk-daemon, I haven't used that. Is it not available any more?
And Wyliodrin looked cool, sort of graphical programming like LabVIEW, for children? Didn't find the time to try it.

[alext-mkrs]

Yeah, xdk-daemon was used as a board-side agent for Intel XDK IoT Edition, which was discontinued. And it's not the cloud, sorry - I mixed it up with iotkit-agent, that one was used for some cloud for storing IoT device data (the cloud was closed as well, even before Edison got EOLed).

As for the Wyliodrin - in general it could be fun, but I wonder how many people would really use it, given that Edisons are no loger sold and are not really the easiest target (and never were intended to be) for beginner developers. Plus, I'm not sure what's the support status from the Wyliodrin side, as that should be in place too. So in the spirit of getting rid of unused cruft, I'd remove it as a whole and add if anyone asks for it - the git history is always there should we need to dig it up.

[htot]

I see. I thought the XDK was something you would need to develop nodejs applications. But according to this https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/articles/alternatives-to-using-the-intel-xdk-to-develop-nodejs-iot-applications you don't it at all. Then, drop them both.

I would be nice if someone got https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/arduino-create to work at some point, given we have all the ingredients (MRAA, UPM and MQTT).

[alext-mkrs]

Ok, I'll submit a PR for dropping that one.

Yeah, Arduino Create that could be an interesting one, though I'm not sure it's possible to add new board support without Arduino Create side-support, but that's just at the first glance.

[htot]

And I see now it's a cloud based IDE so adding boards may be impossible.