Re: [Vala] Gtk+ bindings update

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

I have to second Jim here, retiring my previous comment. If a project is
already relying on the new vala stable release, this is going to be a
breakage for the application.


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Jim Nelson <jim yorba org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>
> wrote:
>
> Non-GNOME programs certainly will not care one way or the other whether
> they are broken by vala 0.26 or by vala 0.28. And the changes are certainly
> bugfixes, not features or UI changes that would be affected by the current
> freeze.
>
>
> This is slightly off-topic, but I'd like to address it while it's on the
> table.
>
> Yorba's applications were considered non-GNOME for nearly five years and
> are still not part of GNOME core (although we're now hosted on the
> infrastructure).  We *definitely* care when we we're broken between
> releases of Vala.  It's worse when those changes are introduced at the last
> minute in the cycle -- less time to prepare -- and even worse, when they're
> introduced in a dot-release.
>
> Things have stabilized with Vala over the past few releases, so good
> times.  I hope that track record continues.
>
> -- Jim



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