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Bug 781853 - Remove VTE bindings
Remove VTE bindings
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: vala
Classification: Core
Component: Bindings
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Vala maintainers
Vala maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 776013
 
 
Reported: 2017-04-27 18:00 UTC by Al Thomas
Modified: 2018-05-22 15:48 UTC
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Description Al Thomas 2017-04-27 18:00:54 UTC 
Upstream added a commit to generate the VAPIs on 31 March 2014:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?id=080c8b4d88ec33597e71c4b4822fc784f9bc97e4

Vala carries both a vte.vapi and a vte-2.90.vapi
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2017-04-27 21:59:18 UTC 
vte.vapi is the old gtk+-2.0 api, and vte-2.90 the old gtk+-3.0 api; upstream only provides a vapi for the vte 2.91 api.
Comment 2 Al Thomas 2017-04-27 22:44:08 UTC 
(In reply to Christian Persch from comment #1)
> vte.vapi is the old gtk+-2.0 api, and vte-2.90 the old gtk+-3.0 api;
> upstream only provides a vapi for the vte 2.91 api.

So that probably means keeping vte.vapi for as long as we keep gtk+-2.0.vapi.

At the moment Vala requires a minimum GLib of 2.32, released 24 March 2012. So bindings upstreamed before 24 March 2012 have been removed. When we bump the minimum GLib requirement then we'll review the bindings again. This bug tracks that for VTE. 

Looks like VTE 2.90 has already been dropped from a number of distros, both Ubuntu and Arch in this report:
https://github.com/oakes/SolidOak/issues/53
and a projects are switching to 2.91, e.g.:
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/336
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 15:48:24 UTC 
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