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

Alexander Kanavin alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com
Fri Jun 10 13:09:05 UTC 2016


On 06/09/2016 05:37 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:

>> That said, what other layers use vala? If it leaves core, is there a
>> layer that can host it and support other layers using it without to much
>> trouble?
>>
>
> That's the key question really - can the support be extracted and added to
> eg meta-vala in some way?

The problem with such extraction is that for recipes in oe-core support 
for generating their vala bindings still has to be provided. I don't see 
a way to do that that is not overly complicated (in 'opaque side 
effects' kind of way) and difficult to grasp for humans.


Alex




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