Bug 179971 – dev-lang/vala - the compiler for the GObject type system (new ebuild)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Zsombor G. 2007-05-27 07:58:05 UTC]

An ebuild for vala, whichis a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Zsombor G. 2007-05-27 07:58:45 UTC]

Created attachment 120418 [details]
the ebuild for the 0.0.9 release

[Comment 2 Chris Mayo 2007-08-10 19:48:42 UTC]

Created attachment 127683 [details]
vala-0.1.2.ebuild

Latest version plus:
- Now hosted on gnome.org so use gnome2.eclass, a lot easier
- Couple of extra docs
- License is LGPL not GPL

[Comment 3 Claes Mogren 2007-08-31 14:51:31 UTC]

Vala 0.1.3 is out, this time with a lot of new bindings. Does this mean we need to add some use flags to the ebuild?
http://www.paldo.org/pipermail/vala/2007-August/000399.html

Btw, just renaming to vala-0.1.3.ebuild works just fine.
/C.M

[Comment 4 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2007-09-01 03:08:43 UTC]

From what I understand, the bindings are pre-built, not compiled at build-time.. so they should all be installed (they are just small text files).

Also there is an optional dep on enchant that is use to run enchant tests... so it should probably be under the test use flag... or maybe ignored...

[Comment 5 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2007-09-01 03:19:27 UTC]

Also, there should be a use flag for --enable-vapigen

[Comment 6 Jean-François Wauthy 2007-09-01 18:24:46 UTC]

Created attachment 129782 [details]
Vala 0.1.3 with vapigen use flag

I'm not an ebuild expert but here is the ebuild i put together. It supports a vapigen use flag for those who wants to build the API generation tools.

[Comment 7 Claes Mogren 2007-10-10 06:08:41 UTC]

Vala 0.1.4 is out: http://www.paldo.org/pipermail/vala/2007-October/000518.html

I renamed Jean-François' ebuild to vala-0.1.4.ebuild and compiled it with the vapigen use flag. Installed without a hitch.

(Getting some strange warnings from valac when compiling code with 0.1.4 that I didn't get with 0.1.3 and the dbustest.vala from the homepage doesn't work any more.)

[Comment 8 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy (RETIRED) 2007-12-03 16:36:14 UTC]

0.1.5 built and ran fine with vala-0.1.3.ebuild

[Comment 9 Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) 2008-01-27 14:01:01 UTC]

Created attachment 141885 [details]
dev-lang/vala-0.1.6

Changes:
* Bumped to 0.1.6
* Add support for --enable-gen-project
* Drop XML-Twig dependency (was replaced by a C parser afaik)

[Comment 10 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2008-02-04 22:39:38 UTC]

vala is now in the sunrise overlay. You can get the latest version from
http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/sunrise/reviewed/dev-lang/vala/

[Comment 11 Maciej Piechotka 2008-04-24 17:02:59 UTC]

Without noticing the sunrise overlay I created my own(git://github.com/uzytkownik/vala-overlay.git).

Pros:
- dev-lang/vala-9999.ebuild
Cons:
- I don't know how the sunrise devs but I will not be able to check/add releases more then once-twice a day

[Comment 12 Maciej Piechotka 2008-10-21 12:58:59 UTC]

Sorry - merged with gnome overlay (git://github.com/uzytkownik/vala-overlay.git)

[Comment 13 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-10-21 13:16:24 UTC]

I've actually been using vala 0.3.5 for a few weeks now. I think I'll be adding 0.4.0 (once I test it) to portage under the Gnome herd, if other herders agree of course :)

Thanks

[Comment 14 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-10-24 12:50:55 UTC]

Done, vala is in tree and part of the Gnome herd, as there seems to be growing interest in it.

Closing :)