Packaging guidelines for packaging vala bindings

Tue Jan 17 13:16:19 UTC 2012

On 01/17/2012 02:08 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203 at freenet.de>  wrote:
>> I disagree. Like other "exotic languages", anything related to it should
>> remain "strictly optional".
> Unlike other bindings which are binaries and link or require external
> packages, vapi files are small plain text file that can be used to
> read an API more easily than their C or gobject introspection gir
> counterpars.
>
Irrelevant ... these files are only usable as with a vala toolchain and 
thus are just "diskspace pollution" to users who have no use for vala.

Ralf