Re: [Vala] Help with libgda

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

> From: Noe Nieto <nnieto noenieto com>
> Sent: Friday, 13 November 2015, 22:47
> Subject: Re: [Vala] Help with libgda
>
> These are the vapi files that contain gda in their name:
>
> $ find /usr | grep -P vapi$ | grep gda
> /usr/share/vala/vapi/gdadata-5.0.vapi
> /usr/share/vala/vapi/libgda-5.0.vapi
> /usr/share/vala/vapi/libgda-6.0.vapi
> /usr/share/vala/vapi/libgdaui-5.0.vapi
> /usr/share/vala/vapi/gdadata-6.0.vapi
> /usr/share/vala/vapi/libgdata.vapi
> /usr/share/vala/vapi/libgdaui-6.0.vapi
> /usr/share/vala-0.28/vapi/libgda-report-4.0.vapi
> /usr/share/vala-0.28/vapi/libgda-4.0.vapi
> /usr/share/vala-0.28/vapi/libgdata.vapi
>
> >  Thirdly, libgda is a database abstraction layer. Why is a 
> libgda-mysql-5.0.vapi even necessary?
> >  The Vala program should be built against the abstraction layer, not a 
> database specific API?
> >  I'm wondering if your projects build instructions are wrong. Try 
> removing --pkg libgda-mysql-5.0.
>
> That's a good question.
>
> Is it enough to just depend on libgda-5.0 or should also explicitly
> depend on  libgda-mysql, libgda-postgresql and so on?



I think it is enough to just depend on libgda-5.0.