[OE-core] [RFC] Remove vala from oe-core

Carlos Rafael Giani dv at pseudoterminal.org
Tue Nov 10 14:29:58 UTC 2015


On 11/10/2015 03:30 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 04:22 PM, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
>
>> There's currently no software built with vala in oe-core. That's not
>> great for vala (as it's not getting the automated testing that high
>> quality maintenance would require) and it's not great for oe-core (as
>> maintenance effort is better spent on components that _are_ used).
>>
>> Based on the above there's a feature request** to remove vala from
>> oe-core. Please comment here or on the bug if you think this is an
>> inappropriate idea or have suggestions.
>
> I have to say no. A lot of things in oe-core (libsoup for instance) 
> come with an option to build vala bindings which in turn require 
> native vapigen binary provided by vala package.
>
> Alex
>

Doesn't vala rely on GObject introspection, which is unsupported in OE?



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