Re: [Vala] Does vala still depend on FLEX anymore?

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 10:35 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 22:31 -0500, Yu Feng wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 00:31 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 18:16 -0500, Yu Feng wrote:
> > > > Hi Jurg,
> > > >
> > > > If I am correct VALA no more depends on FLEX. But configure.ac still
> > > > checks for it.
> > >
> > > The bundled gobject-introspection code (used by vala-gen-introspect)
> > > still depends on flex. I'll remove the check as soon as we switch to the
> > > external version of gobject-introspection.
> > Thanks for the clarify.
> >
> > Will the dependency on the external gir be mandatory?
> > I've been installing vala under my home directory on several shared
> > servers. If the dependency of gir become mandatory I'll need to install
> > another package.
>
> Vala will not depend on an extra library, the code to read .gir files is
> already part of vapigen. We also will continue to distribute
> generated .vapi files, they will just be generated from a different
> source.
>
> If you want to regenerate bindings - or generate additional ones -, you
> will need gobject-introspection, but you won't need it just for using
> bindings. In other words, vala-gen-introspect will be replaced by
> g-ir-scanner and not bundled anymore. valac and vapigen will continue to
> be part of the vala package and not depend on additional libraries.
Yeah. It is crystalline clear now.

Yu
> Jürg