Vala programs and compiling from source

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 17:00:58 UTC 2009


Hi,

> I recently submitting Deja-dup, a backup program written in Vala for
> review at
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540761
>
> Vala is described in more detail at http://live.gnome.org/Vala. Deja-dup
> like many Vala programs include both the Vala source code and the C
> "source code" to avoid a build time requirement of Vala and also because
> Vala is still in a rapidly evolving stage.  Do I need to build from the
> original Vala source code or can I consider the machine generated C as
> "source"?

For rygel to date I've used the C as "source" unless I've needed to
patch a bug or build issue with it when you then need to regenerate
it.

Regards,
Peter




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