Re: [Vala] Vala and Cairo 1.12

[Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>]

On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:26 +0200, Donn wrote:
> On 15/05/2013 02:23, Evan Nemerson wrote:
> > I just pushed a bunch of changes to the vala cairo bindings.  If
> > something is still missing, please file a bug.
> Thanks Evan, however I'm not sure where these bindings can be found online.

In the valac git repository:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/plain/vapi/cairo.vapi

> Once fetched, would I simply drop them over my current file:
> /usr/share/vala-0.18/vapi/cairo.vapi
> ?
>
> Or, would I create cairo112.vapi alongside - but then how to use that in 
> Vala?

Usually you would just copy it into your project (as cairo.vapi) and
pass a --vapidir option to valac so it knows where to look for it.
Overwriting files from packages is generally not advisable.


-Evan