Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org> wrote:
> 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.

I see your point and agree with your solution but as a plan-B. In case
we encounter heavy resistance against pushing individual bindings to
respective libraries, lets look into this option.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124