To follow up clearly: if it were up to me, I'd install an acceptable
version of my patch, as it improves the status quo, and include it in the
next release. Then I'd think about whether it's possible to redo the Vala
support entirely.
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 20:37, Karl Berry wrote:
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> As I wrote before, I strongly support this approach. Since the C file is
> derived, don't distribute it. Would that simplify the patch?
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A patch to re-do Vala support would be a larger patch at this stage, though
overall it would certainly str
Hi Reuben - thanks for all your work on this.
(And again to Daniel for the initial patch.)
2. Remove the support for distributing Vala projects as C files that do not
require a Vala compiler. The Vala compiler is portable and has much the
same dependencies as most Vala projects (that i
I have taken Daniel Espinosa's patch and improved it so that it fixes all
the test failures. Some of the failures were actually left-over changes to
the tests required by Daniel's patch, which (correctly) considers the
primary location of C files generated by valac to be builddir, not srcdir.
One
