Re: Using vala in GNOME

[Stef <stef-list memberwebs com>]

Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> Well the objections were raised and still the code is in svn. This hit
> me today when trying to build with jhbuild and we need to make a
> decision whether vala is blessed as a dependency or not. I don't
> personally have anything against this but I think the vala maintainers
> need to chime in with some kind of guarantees for stability etc.
> 
> Frederic added vala as a tarball to the modulesets so people can build
> it to make seahorse build, but didn't add the dep yet.

Hmm, I built seahorse module on a machine without vala, immediately
after checking it in in order to test this. What are the messages you
experienced when building without vala? That would help fix that bug.

The objections were as to the stability of vala's interfaces, and these
did not play into the use in seahorse. If required I can revert the vala
code commited to seahorse.

The commit represents a few thousand lines of C code. It'd certainly be
a set back for seahorse meeting 2.24 goals, but not the end of the world.

Cheers,
Stef Walter