[PATCH] Update lang/vala to 0.50.0,1

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 08:54:08AM -0400, Charlie Li wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >> Vala cannot be updated until the rest of GNOME is. The API and ABI break
> >> on every new branch, which correspond to a GNOME version, so they must
> >> be updated together.
> >>
> > As far as I can look, the gnome API/ABI does not break that often, so you are
> > speaking specifically about Vala breaking the API/ABI or gnome in general
> > 
> Vala breaks every version. It releases on the same cycle as the rest of
> GNOME, so GNOME stuff uses the corresponding version. Vala 0.40
> corresponds to GNOME 3.28, 0.48 corresponds to 3.36 and now we have 0.50
> corresponding to newly released 3.38. Previous versions of Vala are
> maintained upstream as separate branches to account for the breakages.
> 
still from my testing they are backward compatible, this only thing is means
with when we do upgrade vala, we need to bump portrevision of all ports
depending on vala. Which is painful but doable ;)

Best regards,
Bapt
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