[OE-core] [RFC] Remove vala from oe-core

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 04:22:07PM +0200, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There's currently no software built with vala in oe-core. That's not great
> for vala (as it's not getting the automated testing that high quality
> maintenance would require) and it's not great for oe-core (as maintenance
> effort is better spent on components that _are_ used).
> 
> Based on the above there's a feature request** to remove vala from oe-core.
> Please comment here or on the bug if you think this is an inappropriate
> idea or have suggestions.
> 
> If the plan goes through I intend to send a patch to add vala to another
> layer to minimize disruption: I guess that would be
> meta-openembedded/meta-oe as vala seems to have one user in this layer and
> another one on that layer ... Suggestions welcome on that as well.
> 
> Alex, note that this might affect your GI patch set (or the other way
> round).

It was moved from meta-oe, so if you decide to drop it from oe-core then
meta-oe is where it should return:

commit 807285c751862aaa775db5a13293007bfb3c29df
Author: Mihai Prica <mihai.prica at intel.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 26 11:50:46 2013 +0000

    vala.bbclass: add class from meta-oe
    
    This can be used by packages written in vala.
    It is required by the Midori web-browser.
    
    Signed-off-by: Mihai Prica <mihai.prica at intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>

commit 649b48557d8702daaf4f28482848ab0b07abed83
Author: Mihai Prica <mihai.prica at intel.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 26 11:49:26 2013 +0000

    vala: add version 0.16 from meta-oe
    
    Vala is a C#-like language dedicated to ease GObject programming.
    It is required by the Midori web-browser.
    
    Signed-off-by: Mihai Prica <mihai.prica at intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>

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