On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 10:35 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 22:31 -0500, Yu Feng wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 00:31 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 18:16 -0500, Yu Feng wrote: > > > > Hi Jurg, > > > > > > > > If I am correct VALA no more depends on FLEX. But configure.ac still > > > > checks for it. > > > > > > The bundled gobject-introspection code (used by vala-gen-introspect) > > > still depends on flex. I'll remove the check as soon as we switch to the > > > external version of gobject-introspection. > > > > > Thanks for the clarify. > > > > Will the dependency on the external gir be mandatory? > > I've been installing vala under my home directory on several shared > > servers. If the dependency of gir become mandatory I'll need to install > > another package. > > Vala will not depend on an extra library, the code to read .gir files is > already part of vapigen. We also will continue to distribute > generated .vapi files, they will just be generated from a different > source. > > If you want to regenerate bindings - or generate additional ones -, you > will need gobject-introspection, but you won't need it just for using > bindings. In other words, vala-gen-introspect will be replaced by > g-ir-scanner and not bundled anymore. valac and vapigen will continue to > be part of the vala package and not depend on additional libraries. > Yeah. It is crystalline clear now.
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