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

[Gerry Reno <greno verizon net>]

On 11/10/2014 01:12 PM, Adam Dingle wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Gerry Reno <greno verizon net> wrote:
> > On 11/10/2014 11:41 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> >
> >     On 10 November 2014 16:27, Gerry Reno <greno verizon net <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
>
> I think the easiest solution here by far is to upgrade to a newer version of your distro if at all 
> possible.  I run
> the latest (non-LTS) Ubuntu, for example - it's very stable.
>
> adam

That's not the easiest solution.  If it were the easiest solution I wouldn't have even posted this.