On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:31:07AM +0100, Luca Bruno wrote: > On 27/10/2014 09:08, Patrick Welche wrote: > > I'm new to vala and am wondering what compatibility between versions is > > like, e.g., should I expect to be able to use a recent 0.26.1 compiler > > to compile code from the days of 0.12? > You must expect every new stable release to be incompatible with the > previous. Either because of a compiler change, or because of bindings > breakage. That said, it's not that we break at every new stable release, > only when we feel it's best to break instead of keeping old obsolete things.
Do you have a rule of thumb on how likely a breakage is / what to look for in NEWS? If a package, rather than testing for features (what are the sort of features one could test for in vala?), feeds e.g., vala>= 0.20 to pkg_check_modules, then one has to keep a copy of vala-0.20 around, and so on for all the various vala using packages? Yet a single glib and a single copy of gcc will do for other packages? I hope I am misunderstanding... Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
