On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Evan, > > Is there any thought that this repo might be a staging ground for > migrating VAPIs into Vala distribution?
It may be used that way occasionally, but I don't plan to push people to do that. If a binding is popular and the library it binds doesn't want to ship it then we can generally just add it directly to valac. If we need to we can always mark the binding as experimental for a while (like we did for GStreamer-1.0) to avoid any illusions of backwards-compatibility promises. > Also, will there be packaging efforts to get these out into the distros? No. Not only do I not plan on making any efforts to get them packaged, I would discourage any distributions from doing so. If we depend on a system-installed version of a VAPI we basically have to make a serious effort to provide backwards compatibility (or ask distributions to package many different versions, which I don't think is acceptable). vala-extra-vapis is designed to be used as a git submodule so that if/when to upgrade is up to the packages using it. As I mentioned in my original message, I don't plan on providing a lot of oversight or review for these bindings, so there is no way that I can make promises about backwards compatibility. _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
