Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost> writes:

> On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 18:25:52 +0400
> Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost> wrote:
>> Why do we need so many Vala versions in pkgsrc??
>
> Many vala programs build only with a specific major version of
> vala, and it is usually easier to use the required version
> than to patch the program. It seems that vala is stabilizing
> and incompatibilities are less in more recent versions.
> Note that these are usually build-time dependencies.
>
>> Could we purge some?
>
> 0.12 (which is just lang/vala for historical reasons) is needed
> for graphics/shotwell which is the last shotwell version which
> doesn't need gtk3 and is worth keeping for a while.
> Most pkgs use 0.16 which was the most recent one until today.
> It should be checked now whether they build with 0.18 as well,
> which could make 0.16 dispensable. I can't do this right now
> because the recent revbumps made a mess of my tree, and it will
> take at least the rest of the week to clean up.
> 0.14 has some uses too, in pkgs I'm not familiar with.

Thank you for clarification!


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