[Shotwell] building Shotwell against vala 0.12 : good idea ?

[Adam Dingle]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
On 2012.04.07 15:39, Adam Dingle wrote: 

> The bug is not normally present in Shotwell 0.11, which supports 
> building with versions of Vala up to 0.13.0 only, and includes this line 
> in its Makefile. 
As a quick fix, I'm considering building a custom Shotwell 0.11.6 
package with the Debian packaging tools. It would have to be built 
against vala 0.12 however, as Debian has not packaged valac 0.13. Does 
that feel like a sound idea ? Has it been tested before ? I know nothing 
at all about vala.

I think that should work. Â I personally wouldn't bother trying to use the Debian packaging tools or make a package. Â You could just download the Shotwell 0.11 tarball (http://yorba.org/download/shotwell/0.11/shotwell-0.11.6.tar.bz2), unpack it, cd into it and run

$ sudo apt-get build-dep shotwell
$ valac --version   # make sure this prints 0.12
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

adam