vala: unify builders for various versions

We are currently carrying a number of vala versions where each version
is essentially just a copy of the earlier version.

This PR gets rid of a ton of duplication and uses a standard builder.

Secondly, we add a definition for the latest vala 0.34.1.

Lastly, we add a generic "vala" that refers to the latest stable
version.

I have tried changing the definitions for "simple-scan" and "valum" to use
the latest vala version and they at least compile OK so I'll try a
massive sed job to replace all the definitions later to simply use the
latest version through "vala" instead of specifying a version directly.

According to upstream:

"Well-maintained packages are expected to always build with the latest
stable Vala version."

Maybe this means that my generic builder is then no longer necessary. Oh well...

I added myself to the maintainer array for vala although I have no
interest in the language - this was purely a nix exercise for me but I
thought it was reasonable to be the one to clean up the mess if this has
side effects...

Cc: @antono and @lethalman

1 files changed, 61 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/vala/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/vala/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b0153a754032
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/vala/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, flex, bison, libxslt
+, glib, libiconv, libintlOrEmpty
+}:
+
+let
+  generic = { major, minor, sha256 }:
+  stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+    name = "vala-${major}.${minor}";
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://gnome/sources/vala/${major}/${name}.tar.xz";
+      inherit sha256;
+    };
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig flex bison libxslt ];
+
+    buildInputs = [ glib libiconv ] ++ libintlOrEmpty;
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      description = "Compiler for GObject type system";
+      homepage = "http://live.gnome.org/Vala";
+      license = licenses.lgpl21Plus;
+      platforms = platforms.unix;
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ antono lethalman peterhoeg ];
+    };
+  };
+
+in rec {
+
+  vala_0_23 = generic {
+    major   = "0.23";
+    minor   = "2";
+    sha256  = "0g22ss9qbm3fqhx4fxhsyfmdc5g1hgdw4dz9d37f4489kl0qf8pl";
+  };
+
+  vala_0_26 = generic {
+    major   = "0.26";
+    minor   = "2";
+    sha256  = "1i03ds1z5hivqh4nhf3x80fg7n0zd22908w5minkpaan1i1kzw9p";
+  };
+
+  vala_0_28 = generic {
+    major   = "0.28";
+    minor   = "0";
+    sha256  = "0zwpzhkhfk3piya14m7p2hl2vaabahprphppfm46ci91z39kp7hd";
+  };
+
+  vala_0_32 = generic {
+    major   = "0.32";
+    minor   = "1";
+    sha256  = "1ab1l44abf9fj1wznzq5956431ia136rl5049cggnk5393jlf3fx";
+  };
+
+  vala_0_34 = generic {
+    major   = "0.34";
+    minor   = "1";
+    sha256  = "16cjybjw100qps6jg0jdyjh8hndz8a876zmxpybnf30a8vygrk7m";
+  };
+
+  vala = vala_0_34;
+}