Re: [Vala] [Announce] Repository for third-party Vala bindings

[Eric Gregory <eric yorba org>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>wrote:

> Metadata, as well as *-custom.vala and any other tooling necessary to
> generate bindings can in the vala-extra-vapis-supplemental repository.
> The generated bindings themselves can go into vala-extra-vapis
> repository.

Great!  I look forward to getting this in.

What do you mean by "generated bindings" in this case?



> The WebKitGTK+ people were willing to distribute Vala bindings with
> WebKit.  If that is still the case then that is what should happen, for
> the reasons listed in the upstream guide, which are mostly the same
> reasons I'm not excited about the possibility of distributing them with
> valac.  WebKitGTK+ is a large API (actually, several large APIs), and
> beyond generating a lot of churn I'm sure there will be a fair number of
> issues from targeting the wrong version due to a mismatch between the
> installed library and the version used to generate the VAPI.

With more than a year of inactivity, I think we can safely say there's not
much interest in vapis on the part of the WebKitGTK team.  But now that
they have GIR support, why does it matter?

Anyway, sorry for derailing this thread even further.

 - Eric