[Tracker] Tracker requirements too bleeding edge (was: Re: Needle issues)

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 13:25, Alexander Hunziker
<alex hunziker rega-sense ch> wrote:
> Here's a list of issues I found. This is not with the very latest git (I
> can't build tracker currently due to too old a vala compiler on my
> system), but a fairly recent build nonetheless

Interesting that you mention this. I am myself put off (lazy) by
having to build valac 0.11.1 just to build latest Tracker master
(Debian Sid only got 0.8.1 and Debian Experimental only got 0.10.1),
so I'm now running a Tracker master that's maybe a week old. There's
probably a PPA out there, but I'm not on Ubuntu. Don't you guys think
you are pushing for new tech rather over-enthusiastically?

I think a better idea would have been leaving the gdbus stuff (which
seems like it's what encouraged the version bump) on a branch, at
least until valac 0.11.1+ was more widespread (packaged in distros)?

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