Re: External dependency proposal: Vala

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

I would rephrase this as "valac as a build dependency for gnome"

as valac is like yacc/bison/flex in that there is no runtime dependency
and only people developing or compiling from git will need it (tarballs
and distributed source will contain the generated c files so wont be
needed there)

jamie

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 11:10 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'd like to propose Vala as an official external dependency for GNOME
> 2.30.
> 
> Some GNOME modules are already using Vala, but they are placing
> generated .c/.h files into version control to avoid the need for other
> contributors to have Vala installed.  That's just ugly. :(
> 
> Using Vala to compile a program introduces no additional run-time
> dependencies (Vala produces straight-up GLib-based C code).
> 
> In its typical use, Vala also introduces no additional dependencies for
> building tarballs; distributions will have no additional burden placed
> on them.  This is because 'make dist' typically includes the
> generated .c and .h files into the tarball, making 'valac' only required
> for building from git (or, of course, if you change .vala files).
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks for your consideration
> 
> Cheers
> 
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