Re: Using vala in GNOME

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

on., 09.07.2008 kl. 08.25 +0000, skrev Stef:
> Stef wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I've found a few problems, which I've fixed. My autofoo wasn't
> completely correct for all corner cases. In addition 'make clean'
> deleted some generated C code, and obviously with that gone, seahorse
> would not build on machines without vala. These are now fixed in SVN.
> 
> I'm eager to hear of any other problems building seahorse. The goal (at
> least for the time being) is certainly to have it buildable without
> vala. Apologies for the inconvenience this has caused.
> 
Thank you very much for fixing these up. I'll leave the rest of the
discussion up to those who actually have a stake in it :-)

Cheers
Kjartan