[arch-general] Vala out of date

[Dave Reisner]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 06:09:27PM +0200, Andre Osku Schmidt wrote:
> 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 The vala package is several versions out of date and some packages now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...

Section 3.1 of the link below mentions it.

http://developer.gnome.org/gep/gep-4.html

Not the most visible location for it, but given that its organization
wide, it doesn't make sense to be mentioned for each individual project
either.

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