Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4

[Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>]

2012/1/21 Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org>:
>
> Being a maintainer of 2 vala projects in GNOME, I can tell you that
> valac itself is pretty stable these days and it gets more and more
> stable all the time. The issue is the bindings usually.

Yup, though it's still not unusual to hit vala compiler bugs unfortunately

> There are way
> too many of the libraries to take care of and on top of that they
> change all the time. Ideally each library should be providing vala
> bindings and take care of keeping it up2date. So its really not a
> fault of vala itself.

Well, when people say "vala", they mean what's in vala.git or the vala
tarball. I agree there is a difference between vala-the-language and
vala-the-bindings, but since they are shipped as a single entity, vala
= vala-the-language + vala-the-bindings, it's not really useful to
consider them separately. My feeling is that shipping the 2 separately
might help (people may be able to keep using vala-the-language from
their distro, but some module would require very new vala-the-bindings
tarballs). Dunno how practical that would be.

Christophe