[Geany-devel] Vala plugins - Re: GOject Introspection for Geany

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 07/09/2010 17:34, Nick Treleaven a écrit :
> On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:00:44 +0200
> Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
> 
>> Well, beside this, I worked a while ago on a little hand-crafted Vala
>> VAPI file for Geany [1], and although it's probably buggy because not
>> well-tested, it worked. I've not told anyone about it because it isn't
>> production-ready, but I unfortunately haven't found the time to work on
>> it since then...
>> But since we got here, what would Geany developers think of supporting
>> this kinda officially if it shows to work well? It would need to be
>> maintained up-to-date (which means updating it when the C API changes
>> and/or grows); but it would allow to write plugins in Vala :)
> 
> I haven't really used Vala but it looks good.
> 
> I think it would be OK to add a Vala API file to the distribution if
> it's not too big.
It looks basically like a header file: it lists exported symbols and
their signature. So I think it's not too big.

> If we did though, we can't guarantee it would always
> be up to date with the latest additions, but even so it may be worth
> doing.
You're right, in facts the file /must/ be update only when incompatible
changes occurs, which isn't that common.

I'll try to work on this a little again the next days, and if/when it
gets reasonably ready, I'll present it in more depth. That said, if
anybody wants to work on it, please, go ahead.
I set up a little Git repository on Gitorious [1], so feel free to use
it, and even either propose merges or provide patches -- that'd be awesome!

Regards,
Colomban

[1] http://gitorious.org/geany-vala-binding/