Resending, since I made a mistake and replied only to Sergei, sorry. ----- Original message coming below this ----- Answering both Sergei Steshenko and Paul Davis with this message... On 3/3/07, Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And how does it practically differ from, say, gtk2-perl ? It differs from gtk2-perl (and Gtkmm for that matter) in the sense that it needs no additional runtime to the application, it doesn't even need Vala for source distribution if you decide you don't think your users need it. It is a sort of intermediary compiler: it takes code written on a fairly simple (althought much more complex than C) and easy (a great deal easier than C) language (based on C Sharp) and compiles it into C-with-GObject code, which can then be compiled, distributed, whatever. It has its problems, mostly being you either have to mix C with Vala code in a file to interface with libraries not yet supported or not GObject based or you can write some Vala definitions to help the compile translate vala syntax into C using those other libs. But at the very least, it is a great competitor to the GOB2 object builder and it creates a rather clean set of generated files. I didn't extensively check it but it has some nice features. The one I really like is the ability to treat Signals much like delegates in C# But I really haven't seen much more than they wiki and some sample codes, so I am not a reliable source of information about it. Right now I'm considering it to use as a tool to move from a lot of UML diagrams I wrote on the course of last weeks to a set of classes and then working my way back in C, just to avoid having that great amount of boilerplate code hand typed (I am really short on time to work on this project, so I every speed gain is a big gain). But I know some (few) projects which were actually fully written in vala, and a nice example is scratchpad[1], which was a Mono project later ported to Vala to run natively using only the C runtime for GObject/Glib/Gtk+. > > Regards, > Sergei. > > P.S. I guess you meant > > http://vala.paldo.org/ Thanks for the correction, I was in a hurry and forgot to add the link to the reference I wrote :) That was really embarrassing hehe. This is the link I was referring to. > . > > --- Alexandre Moreira <alexandream@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [ ... snip my own message ... ] _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
