Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4

[Travis Reitter <travis reitter collabora co uk>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 16:32 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:

> But others (folks at least) fail to compile with 0.15.  So far we've
> been relying on the fact that the .c files are cached in the tarball for
> folks, but this is pretty broken.  Jhbuild is supposed to to be the
> developer tool where you can actually hack on stuff.

Thanks for pointing this out. I haven't had as much time for Folks
lately, so it's gone a little undermaintained.

Honestly, I'd like to remove generated .c/.h files from the Folks
release tarballs (in part because it tangles up our makefiles even more)
and just haven't gotten around to it. I solicited feedback and no one
seemed opposed. The initial motivation was that most distros didn't have
the bleeding-edge version of Vala we constantly required for the first
year or so, but our requirements are modest at this point.

I hope to make this change relatively soon and I'll try to keep everyone
informed.

Regards,
-Travis