Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4

[Travis Reitter <travis reitter collabora co uk>]

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 22:53 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote:
> 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).

Yes, I implied that but should have been more clear: part of the move to
vala-dependent tarballs will include porting to 0.15 and explicitly
requiring it.

Regards,
-Travis