Re: Using vala in GNOME

[Jan de Groot <jan jgc homeip net>]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:08 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 01 juillet 2008 à 10:30 +1200, Callum McKenzie a écrit :
> > As an aside: ultimately it will be necessary to move it from a hacking
> > dependency to a build dependency. Novice developers work from tarballs,
> > not SVN and you will get patches against your generated code appearing
> > in bugzilla.
> 
> And don’t forget downstream. If patching the code requires grabbing the
> Vala file from the SVN, regenerate the C code and then diff it, it is
> going to be a big pain for us, while a new build-dependency on valac is
> trivial to deal with.

What about making it optional and making clear that source file foo.c is
a generated copy from vala sources that shouldn't be changed. If valac
is found, regenerate the sources, even when building from tarball.
We don't require aclocal/autoconf/automake for tarball releases either
at this moment, but you're allowed to rebuild configure and Makefile.in
by running aclocal/autoconf/automake from tarball releases.