So will there be a PPA update for future versions of Shotwell for Lucid? It seems a bit short sighted not to support the current LTS release of Ubuntu.
Also, if 0.8 builds on Lucid why is there no PPA for that version? On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > Lorenzo, > > what version of Ubuntu are you using? Both Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) and > Natty (11.04) include Vala 0.10.0 in their repositories in the valac-0.10 > package, so on those releases you shouldn't need to build Vala from source. > It sounds like you're probably on Ubuntu Lucid, since you said you had to > install libglib 2.26 from source. I don't know whether the Shotwell trunk > will build on Lucid, since I'm not sure whether Shotwell has other > dependencies that are not available there. Yorba's policy is that each > Shotwell release supports the last two releases of the major distros. That > is, Shotwell 0.8 builds on both Maverick and Lucid, and Shotwell 0.9 > (including the current trunk) will build on both Natty and Maverick. I'd > recommend that you update to Maverick if you want to work with the Shotwell > trunk. > > By the way, we probably won't publish Vala in our PPA, since that's really > up to the Vala team and is outside the scope of Yorba's activities. There > is a Vala PPA (https://launchpad.net/~vala-team/+archive/ppa), though it > only includes Vala 0.11.5. You could ask the Vala team to publish the last > stable release (0.10) in their PPA of Lucid if you like - don't know what > they'll say, though. I suspect that they, like we, are focused on newer > operating system releases. > > adam > > > On 02/07/2011 01:29 PM, Lorenzo Baldacchini wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am installing vala 0.10 from source. >> I suggest to put it in your ppa, since there are two version (or at least >> is >> what I have in the software list) 0.98 and 0.11.5, both not good for >> installing shotwell. >> >> Thanks again, anyway, for the perfect work you are doing with shotwell! >> >> Regards >> Lorenzo >> >> 2011/2/7<[email protected]> >> >> Send Shotwell mailing list submissions to >>> [email protected] >>> >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >>> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell >>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >>> [email protected] >>> >>> You can reach the person managing the list at >>> [email protected] >>> >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >>> than "Re: Contents of Shotwell digest..." >>> >>> >>> Today's Topics: >>> >>> 1. Re: Strange date error (Adam Dingle) >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:48:12 -0800 >>> From: Adam Dingle<[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [Shotwell] Strange date error >>> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >>> >>> Lorenzo, >>> >>> thanks for your message. I suspect you're using Vala 0.9.8. The >>> Shotwell trunk will no longer build with that version of Vala. I've >>> just updated the Shotwell makefile to check for a minimum of Vala >>> 0.10.0. So if you upgrade to Vala 0.10, you should be able to build. >>> Cheers - >>> >>> adam >>> >>> On 02/06/2011 10:33 AM, Lorenzo Baldacchini wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everybody, >>>> >>>> I am trying to compile shotwell from source, obtained via SVN. >>>> >>>> I have such a strange error with the last version >>>> >>>> Compiling Vala code... >>>> src/Dialogs.vala:1664.13-1664.25: error: The type name `GLib.DateTime' >>>> >>> could >>> >>>> not be found >>>> private GLib.DateTime example_date = new GLib.DateTime.local(2009, >>>> >>> 3, >>> >>>> 10, 18, 16, 11); >>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>>> src/AppDirs.vala:93.9-93.16: error: The type name `DateTime' could not >>>> be >>>> found >>>> DateTime date = new DateTime.from_unix_utc(tm); >>>> ^^^^^^^^ >>>> Compilation failed: 2 error(s), 0 warning(s) >>>> make: *** [src/.stamp] Errore 1 >>>> >>>> >>>> What does this mean? >>>> I have installed glib2.26 from source to be able to install shotwell. >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot >>>> best regards >>>> Lorenzo >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> End of Shotwell Digest, Vol 19, Issue 8 >>> *************************************** >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
