8640 2015-11-04 13:52:32 +0000 Remove vala from oe-core? 2017-12-06 16:49:47 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core devtools / tool chain 2.0 All Multiple RESOLVED NOTABUG Medium+ enhancement 2.2 M1 8469 1 ross.burton alex.kanavin alex.kanavin alexandru.c.georgescu bluelightning jose.perez.carranza meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher --- --- Yes (doc changes required) oldest_to_newest 56184 0 ross.burton 2015-11-04 13:52:32 +0000 The only thing in oe-core using vala is now gcr, which can optionally build vala bindings. Should vala move back to meta-oe in the 2.1 cycle? 56194 1 jku 2015-11-04 15:04:58 +0000 Sounds good to me. I assume the move would include vala.bbclass? Setting documentation change to yes on that assumption ... 56195 2 bluelightning 2015-11-04 15:05:36 +0000 I'd say yes, but we'd want to put it out to the OE-Core mailing list. 56209 3 ross.burton 2015-11-04 19:56:03 +0000 Had a quick look at gcr and the vala support it asks for doesn't even get used. 56210 4 ross.burton 2015-11-04 20:21:11 +0000 But gcr needs vala's m4 files to configure. Damned m4. 56781 5 alex.kanavin 2015-11-25 15:47:05 +0000 Let's first resolve the gobject-introspection (which also fixes generation of vala bindings with vapigen), so that whether vala stays in oe-core or goes elsewhere, it will have those fixes. 58810 6 jku 2016-02-10 08:33:21 +0000 Agreed, deferring until gobject-introspection is in. 62809 7 alex.kanavin 2016-06-09 10:09:32 +0000 I think we need a consultation with the community here - should Vala be dropped altogether? From what I see, the only thing that benefits from having vala and is useful in embedded environments is Rygel (the implementation of UPnP AV), and the benefit is more or less that Rygel can be patched much more easily, because it can be compiled from original vala sources instead of intermediate generated C sources. 62810 8 alex.kanavin 2016-06-09 10:31:20 +0000 http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-June/122632.html http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2016-June/107773.html 62921 9 alex.kanavin 2016-06-13 14:12:22 +0000 So here's the outcome: people do appreciate having vala in oe-core, but we don't have to make sure it *really* works; as long as the recipe builds okay, and support for generating bindings doesn't bitrot, the community will handle the rest. I'll reassign the vala recipe to myself from Jussi.