Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4



On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 13:57 -0800, Travis Reitter wrote:
> 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.

Also, I don't think there are any reasons for us to not port to Vala
0.15, as long as libgee 0.6 continues to compile with 0.15.

In fact, some of my recent folks branches require Vala 0.15 (due
to .vapi file changes which haven't been backported to 0.14).

Philip

> Regards,
> -Travis
> 
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