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

[Gerry Reno <greno verizon net>]

On 11/10/2014 11:41 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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

> Is there a way to compile Shotwell and all of its dependencies from source separate from the distro as a 
> whole build
process?

That's what I am asking for.  An entire build process for everything.