Re: [Vala] Versioned vala, and vapi directory locations

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Michel,

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:01 +0000, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> Since vala 0.9.5 Vala installs its VAPI binding files in $PREFIX/share/
> vala-$APIVER/vapi .
>
> Is this the only directory scanned, or would Vala also pick up files in 
> the old-style $PREFIX/share/vala/vapi directory?
>
> The reason I'm asking is that a lot of third-party packages still install 
> in the latter directory.

No, Vala also picks up files in the unversioned vala/vapi directory in
$XDG_DATA_DIRS (/usr/share and /usr/local/share by default).

Third-party packages should continue to install into unversioned
directories - unless the vapi is really Vala version-specific but that
should be rare.

Jürg