Geary 0.4.1 (released a little over a week ago) fails to compile with
Vala 0.22.1. This is due to two changes in Vala:
* The libnotify binding change
* Vala 0.22.1 catches binding errors in WebKitGTK's .gir file that were
not caught in 0.22.0.
These are documented at http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7695 and
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7694
These two issues forced us to release 0.4.2 for no other reason than to
ensure we compile with the latest stable Vala. We had to include the
libnotify VAPI in our tarball in order to compile with older versions.
I'd like to request that in the future changes in stable dot releases
be more conservative in nature. Neither of the above changes seem truly
critical to me (although perhaps they are to other projects; I'd like
to hear why, though). The libnotify change was particularly troublesome
because, while it fixes a memory leak, I'd be amazed if it was a real
issue for any application. Geary calls Notify.get_server_caps() once,
stores the result, and never calls it again.
My broad point is, dot releases for stable versions of Vala can cause
large changes downstream. In the future, could these changes be more
geared toward critical fixes?
-- Jim
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