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

[Jim Nelson <jim yorba org>]

Hi Evan,

Is there any thought that this repo might be a staging ground for migrating VAPIs into Vala distribution?

Also, will there be packaging efforts to get these out into the distros?

-- Jim

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com> wrote:
I've created a repository on GitHub ("vala-extra-vapis" [1]) to house 
our external VAPIs. 

This repository has a very low barrier for entry. Unlike the bindings 
distributed with valac, I don't plan to provide much review or 
oversight. Basically, the only requirement for getting bindings into 
the repository is an open source license (preferable MIT or a similarly 
permissive license). 

vala-extra-vapis is designed to be used as a git submodule, and it will 
only contain *.vapi and *.deps files (as well as the README). All 
tests, examples, documentation, and other supplemental information will 
go in a second repository, "vala-extra-vapis-supplemental" [2] (yes, I'm 
aware the name seems both repetitive and redundant). I'm still working 
on getting the infrastructure in place to automatically run the tests 
and generate documentation, but that should happen soon. 

If you have created bindings for libraries which are not being 
distributed with the library they bind (or with valac), I hope you'll 
consider submitting them for inclusion in vala-extra-vapis through the 
issue tracker on GitHub. 

Just to be clear, I still prefer that bindings be distributed with the 
library they bind when possible (see [3]). However, I hope this will 
provide an easier alternative to trying to get them distributed with 
valac. 


-Evan 

[1] https://github.com/nemequ/vala-extra-vapis 
[2] https://github.com/nemequ/vala-extra-vapis-supplemental 
[3] http://live.gnome.org/Vala/UpstreamGuide 
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