On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:08 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 01 juillet 2008 à 10:30 +1200, Callum McKenzie a écrit : > > As an aside: ultimately it will be necessary to move it from a hacking > > dependency to a build dependency. Novice developers work from tarballs, > > not SVN and you will get patches against your generated code appearing > > in bugzilla. > > And don’t forget downstream. If patching the code requires grabbing the > Vala file from the SVN, regenerate the C code and then diff it, it is > going to be a big pain for us, while a new build-dependency on valac is > trivial to deal with.
The tarball should also contain the .vala source files and the build system should rebuild the C code when the .vala files have changed, similar to how other generated files are handled. Does this sound ok? Jürg _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
