Cannot compile Postler with Vala 0.11.6

[Stéphane Marguet]

Using Ubuntu Natty the compilation failed with :
../postler/postler-accounts.vala:69.44-69.44: error: Value must be constant

    const MailFolder[] localized_folders = {
        { "INBOX", STOCK_INBOX, N_("Inbox"), null, 0, FolderType.INBOX, 0 },
        { "Sent", STOCK_SENT_MAIL, N_("Sent"), sent_folders, sent_folders.length, FolderType.SENT, 1 },
        { "Drafts", null, N_("Drafts"), drafts_folders, drafts_folders.length, FolderType.DRAFTS, 2 },
        { "Queue", STOCK_OUTBOX, N_("Outbox"), queue_folders, queue_folders.length, FolderType.QUEUE, 3 },
        { "Trash", STOCK_USER_TRASH, N_("Trash"), trash_folders, trash_folders.length, FolderType.TRASH, 4 },
        { "Archive", STOCK_ARCHIVE, N_("Archive"), archive_folders, archive_folders.length, FolderType.ARCHIVE, 5 },
        /* i18n: Junk, unsolicited bulk mail, spam */
        { null, null, N_("Junk"), junk_folders, junk_folders.length, FolderType.JUNK, 6 },
        { null, Gtk.STOCK_DIRECTORY, null, null, 0, FolderType.GENERIC, 7 }
    };

[Sergio Spinatelli (spinatelli)]

The only solution is to downgrade to 0.11.4 (at least),since there have been some changes in the vala compiler.
0.11.5 and 0.11.6 don't work.

[Stéphane Marguet (stemp)]

@Sergio, the valac version in Natty is 0.11.6. I can't do anything about it. As long as this bug is not fixed, there cannot be a version of Postler for the next version of Ubuntu ;)

[Sergio Spinatelli (spinatelli)]

We already filed a bug in vala,unfortunately i don't know any other solution..maybe Christian can tell you more,let's see what he says.. =)