[arch-general] Vala out of date

[Andre "Osku" Schmidt]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Jackson Alley <toomanymirrors at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 08/27/2010 11:27 AM, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
>>
>> On 08/27/2010 06:23 PM, Jackson Alley wrote:
>>>
>>> The vala package is several versions out of date and some packages now
>>> depend on the .9 branch like shotwell. Here's an updated PKGBUILD:
>>> http://dpaste.com/234866/
>>> Jackson
>>>
>>
>> for the 999999 time, vala 0.9.x is the devel branch and i'm not going to
>> update it.
>>
>> shotwell was updated to 0.7 and vala 0.9.5 is a _makedepends_ not a
>> depends for this app
>>
> My apologies, my googling didn't turn up this prior discussion and the
> phrasing on the vala homepage (http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Release) lables
> the 0.9.x version as "releases" not a development branch.
> Jackson

hehe, i was one of those 999999 too. and there seems to be a "secret"
versioning schema that "all" gnome projects follow: odd numbers are
unstable and even are stable. but yeah, i never found this definition
on the gnome site neither...