I have to second Jim here, retiring my previous comment. If a project is already relying on the new vala stable release, this is going to be a breakage for the application.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Jim Nelson <j...@yorba.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> > wrote: > > Non-GNOME programs certainly will not care one way or the other whether > they are broken by vala 0.26 or by vala 0.28. And the changes are certainly > bugfixes, not features or UI changes that would be affected by the current > freeze. > > > This is slightly off-topic, but I'd like to address it while it's on the > table. > > Yorba's applications were considered non-GNOME for nearly five years and > are still not part of GNOME core (although we're now hosted on the > infrastructure). We *definitely* care when we we're broken between > releases of Vala. It's worse when those changes are introduced at the last > minute in the cycle -- less time to prepare -- and even worse, when they're > introduced in a dot-release. > > Things have stabilized with Vala over the past few releases, so good > times. I hope that track record continues. > > -- Jim > -- www.debian.org - The Universal Operating System _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
