I already did this 2 years ago. It was documented in the wiki, but, as long as people showed no interest on it for two years i removed the repo.
I have pushed it to bitbucket. Feel free to get the vapis you like. I'm not going no maintain my repo. http://bitbucket.org/radare/vala-vapis On Feb 23, 2013, at 6:51, Evan Nemerson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
