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

[Gerry Reno <greno verizon net>]

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.

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