On 10 November 2014 16:27, Gerry Reno <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/10/2014 11:20 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> On 10 November 2014 15:14, Gerry Reno <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I would like to stay current with Shotwell releases by compiling everything >>> from source. >>> >>> The problem I run into is that with each Shotwell release dependencies are >>> changing and many times the distro is unable >>> to provide some of these dependencies. >> Can you give some examples of dependencies that the distro is unable to >> provide? >> >> Colin > > How about even the compiler: > $ make > Shotwell requires Vala compiler 0.20.1 or greater. You are running 0.16.1 \b. > make: *** [valacheck] Error 1 > # yum list vala > Available Packages > vala.i686 0.16.1-1.fc17 > updates > > And before you go down the path that F17 is EOL. There are a lot of people > who have very stable systems running older > releases of Fedora as well as other distros. Including Ubuntu LTS distros > that would like to be able to have a current > and working Shotwell install.
Good point. In the case of old versions of Ubuntu, Vala is available via a ppa I believe, but I don't know whether the equivalent exists for Fedora. It is difficult to see a solution. If the required version of Vala is not available for Fedora then the only solution I can see would be to build it oneself. The same would apply for any other dependencies I imagine. Perhaps that is what you were thinking of, a complete set of sources and build scripts for all the dependencies. Colin > > . _______________________________________________ shotwell-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/shotwell-list
