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

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 05:36:32PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 9 June 2016 at 16:59, Petr Nechaev <petr.nechaev at cogentembedded.com>
> 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.

It's used by couple recipes in meta-oe and other layers which already
depend on meta-oe:
meta-multimedia, meta-gnome, meta-efl, meta-fso

so if you want to move it out from oe-core, then it should be returned
to meta-oe (from where it was moved to oe-core a while back with midori):

commit 6f642a51dc98b0a8a20b2d0a6bfe6917e9f2091f
Author: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 28 10:43:25 2013 +0000

    classes/vala: remove
    
    This is now in OE-Core as of 807285c751862aaa775db5a13293007bfb3c29df.
    
    Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>

commit ad185f4494fff1254bfa167d6715db7be5a2de04
Author: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 28 10:43:24 2013 +0000

    vala: remove
    
    This is now in OE-Core as of 649b48557d8702daaf4f28482848ab0b07abed83.
    
    Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>

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