Maverick will include Vala 0.9.5 and Shotwell 0.7 as the default photo management application.
--Robert Ancell Ubuntu Desktop On 15/08/10 06:26, Bruno Girin wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
