sø., 29.06.2008 kl. 22.02 +0000, skrev Stef: > I've been implementing some parts of seahorse (and maybe soon > gnome-keyring) in Vala. > > http://live.gnome.org/Vala > > I'm assuming this is an acceptable thing for a gnome module to do, as it > adds no new dependencies (build-time or run-time). > > However it does add a 'hacking' dependency. That is, obviously if > someone wants to get involved in those portions of seahorse that are > written in vala, they'd need to build vala (which is easy to do). > > I believe this is an acceptable tradeoff, since seahorse and > gnome-keyring have most of their code contributed by a small number of > people ... and using vala speeds up development for that small number of > people. > > Barring any objections, the next release of seahorse will contain some > vala code. > Well the objections were raised and still the code is in svn. This hit me today when trying to build with jhbuild and we need to make a decision whether vala is blessed as a dependency or not. I don't personally have anything against this but I think the vala maintainers need to chime in with some kind of guarantees for stability etc.
Frederic added vala as a tarball to the modulesets so people can build it to make seahorse build, but didn't add the dep yet. Cheers Kjartan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
