On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:13 +0000, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > Jürg Billeter <j <at> bitron.ch> writes: > > > I understand the issue. Unfortunately, it's not easy to solve. One issue > > is that you might need multiple #if in the generated code for a single > > #if in the Vala code - e.g. for #include directives. It would also > > require the Vala compiler to support dealing with multiple declarations > > of the same method for different conditions, which would make semantic > > and flow analysis a lot more difficult. > > > > I'd be happy to hear proposals how we could solve this in a > > non-intrusive way. > > > > May be static if or something like that? > > void my_method () { > [StaticIf] > if (vala.pkg.gtk+-2.0.version > 2.4.0") { > // Use new gtk+ > } else { > // Use legacy gtk+ > } > }
The exact syntax is not the main issue. The question is how to support conditional compilation in such a way that we can keep the conditions in the generated C code. Otherwise, we cannot support conditionals with projects that distribute the generated C code in the source tarballs. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list