Re: Libchamplain and GNOME 3.0

[Łukasz Jernaś <deejay1 srem org>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 18:34, Łukasz Jernaś <deejay1 srem org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 13:59, Łukasz Jernaś <deejay1 srem org> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 20:39, Łukasz Jernaś <deejay1 srem org> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> Ah, yes, that's true. But in that case I would prefer not to have vala
>>> bindings enabled by default to reduce the amount of the necessary
>>> packages for libchamplain build (the remaining bindings aren't enabled
>>> by default either). Why do you need it to be enabled?
>>
>> Well, Vala is a blessed dependency of the GNOME desktop so I see no
>> reason why they shouldn't be shipped by default.
>> Personally I'd like the bindings to be there, because Emerillon's
>> plugins will heavily depend on them and it would be a bit unfortunate
>> if some distributions didn't ship them because they were off by
>> default...
>
> Wouldn't it be enough to put --enable-vala among
> DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS (actually it is already there). To be honest
> I'm not familiar with the process of distributions package creation so
> I don't know based on what they decide whether they enable some
> library features or not. Still I would prefer for libchamplain to be
> buildable by default with the minimal dependency set.

It depends very much on the packager and the distro, "lazy" packagers
just go with whatever is the default, so no vala and no python
bindings and may not read any included README or configure --help.
DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS affect only how the tarball is generated
(AFAIR) Of course you're the maintainer here and I can work the
packaging out with downstreams if it''ll be necessary

> By the way, how are the vala bindings distributed for other libraries?
> I tried to locate something with the .vapi extension in gtk and
> libsoup tarballs but I haven't found any - still the bindings exist
> for them.

Those are distributed as part of Vala itself
(http://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/tree/vapi)


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Łukasz