Re: [Shotwell] How to stay current with shotwell?

[Colin Law <clanlaw gmail com>]

On 10 November 2014 16:27, Gerry Reno <greno verizon net> wrote:
> On 11/10/2014 11:20 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> > On 10 November 2014 15:14, Gerry Reno <greno verizon net> wrote:
> > > I would like to stay current with Shotwell releases by compiling everything from source.
> > >
> > > The problem I run into is that with each Shotwell release dependencies are changing and many times the 
> > > distro is unable
> > > to provide some of these dependencies.
> > Can you give some examples of dependencies that the distro is unable to provide?
> >
> > Colin
>
> How about even the compiler:
> $ make
> Shotwell requires Vala compiler 0.20.1 or greater.  You are running 0.16.1 \b.
> make: *** [valacheck] Error 1
> # yum list vala
> Available Packages
> vala.i686                                                  0.16.1-1.fc17
> updates
>
> And before you go down the path that F17 is EOL.  There are a lot of people who have very stable systems 
> running older
> releases of Fedora as well as other distros.  Including Ubuntu LTS distros that would like to be able to 
> have a current
> and working Shotwell install.

Good point.  In the case of old versions of Ubuntu, Vala is available
via a ppa I believe, but I don't know whether the equivalent exists
for Fedora.

It is difficult to see a solution.  If the required version of Vala is
not available for Fedora then the only solution I can see would be to
build it oneself.  The same would apply for any other dependencies I
imagine.  Perhaps that is what you were thinking of,  a complete set
of sources and build scripts for all the dependencies.

Colin

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