[Geany-Devel] Let's use Vala

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Sun Nov 10 19:22:42 UTC 2013


On 13-11-10 02:00 AM, Pavel Roschin wrote:
> Maybe, rewriting some parts of boating complicated leaky code (e.g. build.c:)
> isn't bad idea and suitable in this situation. You don't need much bindings for
> editor and Vala shouldn't be a pain. But AFAIK Geany don't use GObject and
> writing on Vala may cause deep refactoring that will take your time. Many things
> in Geany could be rewritten, simplified and improved and it's definitely going
> to be refactoring while using Vala.
>
> To improve maintainability pure C code could be pre-generated before release
> for faster and easier build without vala.
>

Yep, this is the default for the Autotools built-in support as well, so 
no extra work to do it.

>  From the other side you could scare good C programmers...
>

True, but I suspect good C programmers will have little trouble with a 
simple language like Vala.

> About RHEL: defenitely can say that Vala 0.20 works. And some things could be
> easily compiled.
>

Cool, good to know.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush



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