[Bug 677181] Please update to latexila 2.0.5

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--- Comment #6 from Thibault North <thibault.north at gmail.com> 2011-02-15 13:51:11 EST ---
>No, normally it should be easy. But if I switch to Vala 0.11 and remove the C
>code, how to package it for F14?

>The C code generated was for me the best solution because I don't need to
>maintain several branches for each version of Vala. AFAIK other Vala projects
>do the same.

I think that this solution is acceptable, but there is apparently not a total
agreement about that.
Of course, maintaining a few branches is far from ideal.

>IMHO Fedora should have several Vala packages, one for each version. Since it
>seems that there is no plan for doing this, I've chosen the best compromise.
>The C code is rightly there to simplify installing and packaging.

The development cycle for Fedora is really short, and I think that it could be
ok to either use this C code for Fedora for a while, waiting for the Vala 0.11
compatibility fixes.

>Why it is not acceptable to keep it like that?

Some consider the source code to be the file that a edited by a human only. A
patch against the generated code would make no sense.

But anyway, I think we'll keep it simple and do the following:
- For Fedora 14, rebuild normally an regenerate the C code.
- For Fedora > 14, use the generated C code

As soon as latexila supports Vala >= 0.11, I will update these packages for
Fedora > 14 to always regenerate C code. The Fedora 14 version will use the
generated C code.
Finally, F-14 with become EOL and we will be back to a stable situation.

Thanks,
Thibault

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