[OE-core] [oe] the fate of Vala in OE

[Tim Orling]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 6:21 AM, Alexander Kanavin <
alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On 06/09/2016 07:36 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
>     We do use Vala for internal gstreamer-related projects so I would
>>     volunteer to support it in oe-core.
>>
>>
>> Would you volunteer to maintain it in a separate layer if possible?  If
>> nothing in core uses it and it can be maintained out of core then I
>> think it should be moved out.  Currently, vala support is in oe-core but
>> nothing in oe-core uses it... so the autobuilder can't tell if it works.
>>
>
> How about?
>
> 1) vala compiler recipe and support for generating library bindings stays
> in oe-core
>
> 2) we take care of updating the vala recipe to latest stable upstream
> version
>
> 3) we make sure that vala recipe builds correctly and library bindings are
> generated without error for libraries that are in oe-core
>
> 4) any other issues, such as compiler not working properly, or issues with
> bindings for things that are not in oe-core are handled by 'the community'.
>
>
Excellent compromise. I volunteer to help with that.
 --Tim

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> Alex
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