On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 18:36 +0200, Marcel Stimberg wrote: > Hi, > > As to requiring 0.9.5, I think that the current code base won't compile > > with 0.9.4 because of changes in the compiler. > yes -- a change in the compilier leads to some *warnings* for > unnecessary code (unreachable return after error) that was needed in > versions <=0.9.4. Getting rid of these warnings came at the cost of > noone being able to compile trunk without the most recent valac, > rendering the build constructions on > http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/install/ and > http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/ShotwellInstallation obsolete. > Most importantly, vala 0.9.5 is not even in Debian Experimental yet > and given that Ubuntu is beyond feature freeze it is very unlikely > that it will be included in Maverick -- this means Shotwell as it is > can't be included as well (what a pity as it is supposed to be the > default image management tool in Maverick :-)).
Indeed Ubuntu is in feature freeze [1]. Therefore it is very unlikely that the default image management tool will change. At the end of the day, it will be a lot easier to solve the Vala dependency by including a newer version of the compiler than decide not to include Shotwell after all. There is a process for doing exactly that [2]. Furthermore, upgrading from valac 0.9.4.1 to 0.9.5 is a micro-version upgrade so is exactly what the exception process is designed to address. As long as the issue is resolved before Beta Freeze [3] (in 2 weeks), everything should be fine. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaFreeze Cheers, Bruno _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
