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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-06-10 10:41, Martin Jansa wrote:
> You're reading it from wrong side.
>
> This shows what vala-native needs, not what needs vala-native.

Yes, I realized that :-(

The actual list is smaller, but still important:
"gcr" -> "vala-native" [style=solid]
"gcr" -> "vala" [style=solid]
"libsecret" -> "vala-native" [style=solid]
"libsecret" -> "vala" [style=solid]

Both of those packages are in OE-core (meta/recipes-gnome)

>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-06-10 02:04, Petr Nechaev wrote:
>>
>>> I can see that libsecret in oe-core depends on vala though for testing
>>> only.
>>>
>>> If moving to meta-oe is community's decision, I will prepare the patch.
>>>
>>>
>> It looks like a lot of things need vala (or more precisely vala-native).
>> I just tried a build which included meta-browser (I know this isn't OE-core
>> but _is_ very common) and saw this dependency chain:
>> "vala-native" -> "libxslt-native" [style=solid]
>> "vala-native" -> "glib-2.0-native" [style=solid]
>> "vala-native" -> "autoconf-native" [style=solid]
>> "vala-native" -> "automake-native" [style=solid]
>> "vala-native" -> "libtool-native" [style=solid]
>> "vala-native" -> "gnu-config-native" [style=solid]
>> "vala-native" -> "pkgconfig-native" [style=solid]
>> "vala-native" -> "flex-native" [style=solid]
>> "vala-native" -> "bison-native" [style=solid]
>>
>> In this case, I think vala (vala-native) deserves OE-core status.

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