On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:52:59PM +0100, Jrg Billeter wrote:
If a package, rather than testing for features (what are the sort of
features one could test for in vala?), feeds e.g., vala= 0.20 to
pkg_check_modules, then one has to keep a copy of vala-0.20 around,
and so on for all the
I'm new to vala and am wondering what compatibility between versions is
like, e.g., should I expect to be able to use a recent 0.26.1 compiler
to compile code from the days of 0.12?
Cheers,
Patrick
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On 27/10/2014 09:08, Patrick Welche wrote:
I'm new to vala and am wondering what compatibility between versions is
like, e.g., should I expect to be able to use a recent 0.26.1 compiler
to compile code from the days of 0.12?
You must expect every new stable release to be incompatible with the
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:31:07AM +0100, Luca Bruno wrote:
On 27/10/2014 09:08, Patrick Welche wrote:
I'm new to vala and am wondering what compatibility between versions is
like, e.g., should I expect to be able to use a recent 0.26.1 compiler
to compile code from the days of 0.12?
You
Luca's answer is obviously the correct one and the one I feel like we have
to say to you.
With that in mind, though, depending on how complex your code is it's very
possible/likely it will still compile with a version of Vala that's quite
old. The one program I work on in my spare time, last I
On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 12:00 +, Patrick Welche wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:31:07AM +0100, Luca Bruno wrote:
On 27/10/2014 09:08, Patrick Welche wrote:
I'm new to vala and am wondering what compatibility between versions is
like, e.g., should I expect to be able to use a recent
