On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:52:59PM +0100, Jrg Billeter wrote: > > 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? > > Well-maintained packages are expected to always build with the latest > stable Vala version. For packages that haven't been updated in a while, > I would still recommend to first try to build with the latest stable > Vala version. Depending on the age of the package, it should just work > in most cases or require only small changes. Where necessary, `#if > VALA_0_XY` can be used to support multiple Vala versions in a single > code base.
That seems like a much better state of affairs. So I can expect in an ideal world to just keep a copy of the latest stable Vala version, and the original pessimistic view applies to the non-ideal reality of software with its myriad bugs? (It is hard to tell when meeting a new language - python versions are a real issue, so vala could have been in the same boat hence the question...) Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
