Re: External dependency proposal: Vala

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeenix gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 11:10 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote:
>> I'd like to propose Vala as an official external dependency for GNOME
>> 2.30.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> This is therefore a 'special' external dependency: it would only be
>> required when building from git (or hacking on the code).
>>
>> It makes sense that we depend on the most recently available version at
>> this point -- 0.7.7.
>
> Vala 0.8.0 will be released this week and from this point on, the
> language syntax is considered stable and no backward incompatible
> changes will be applied during the 0.8 series. We also intend to keep
> backward compatibility with 0.8 when releasing 1.x, assuming we don't
> find severe issues in the syntax in the meantime.

  That is really good to know and takes away my main reason to
distribute generated files in rygel release tarballs but what about
the bindings (ones bundled with vala)? They are still far from perfect
AFAIK.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124