Re: [Vala] State of the Vala union

2017-04-15 Thread Matthias Berndt
Hi Michael, There are bugs about these, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772209 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694895 (I'm not sure about the delegate bug, it may or may not be in bugzilla – but I won't waste my time reporting bugs that nobody is going to fix anyway.

Re: [Vala] State of the Vala union

2017-04-07 Thread Matthias Berndt
> Don't you have anything better to be doing with your time than to be > trolling the mailing list of a programming language that you don't want to > use? It's quite telling that you accuse me of trolling rather than addressing any of the actual issues I've raised. I've fixed several bugs in the

Re: [Vala] State of the Vala union

2017-04-06 Thread Matthias Berndt
> > Well, I suppose I have higher requirements than they have. From a > > production-ready > > compiler I would expect > > – no (or at best very obscure) type errors to get through > > – no compiler crashes > > – no broken code generated > > I don't think these are unreasonable criteria, yet

Re: [Vala] State of the Vala union

2017-04-05 Thread Matthias Berndt
Hi Al, thanks for responding! > I guess it depends on what you are producing. Some one has just stated on > this list > they have been part of a 200K lines of code project. They must have thought > it was > production ready. Well, I suppose I have higher requirements than they have. From a

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-18 Thread Matthias Berndt
Hey Al, > Hmm, that seems a little unfair. You submitted the patch on the 08 Aug 2016 > and it was reviewed on the 10 Aug 2016. Unfortunately your first version of > the patch included a bug that the review identified. Well, I fixed that bug within a day. Then it took another 12 days for Jürg

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-13 Thread Matthias Berndt
Hey, > With Luca leaving the project ([Vala] Leaving the project > ), > the situation is now even more > critical. Given that Joerg obviously has no time or interest it basically > means that there > is no-one left

Re: [Vala] My patches from a few weeks ago

2016-06-02 Thread Matthias Berndt
I couldn't think of a better way to drive away contributors than this sort of bureaucracy. But whatever, here's the bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767092 Cheers, Matthias ___ vala-devel-list mailing list

Re: [Vala] compiler crash with delegates

2016-05-18 Thread Matthias Berndt
>This could be related to: >https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614986 Yes, that seems to be it, the error message (assertion failed: (instance _type != NULL)) >As a thought you may want to try: >return (y) => {}; How's that different from what I wrote, except for the parens? Those

[Vala] [PATCH] three small patches

2016-05-16 Thread Matthias Berndt
tthias >From 79aa26e2f37cc10a4c256de4a4377f260411ea9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Berndt <matthias_ber...@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 01:01:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] add missing tokens to TokenType's to_string method --- vala/valatokentype.vala | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 inse

Re: [Vala] Is there any usable editor for Vala?

2016-02-23 Thread Matthias Berndt
[1] http://gilzad.de/linux-stuff/valencia_0.8_post_gtk3.12.zip > [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724173 > > >> Gesendet: Freitag, 19. Februar 2016 um 21:34 Uhr >> Von: "Jonathan Moerman" <jonathanmoer...@gmail.com> >> An: "Matthia

Re: [Vala] Is there any usable editor for Vala?

2016-02-14 Thread Matthias Berndt
Hi Andy, A recent version of Anjuta compiled with Vala support enabled does pretty well on code completion and go to declaration That's very interesting to know! But I don't seem to be able to reproduce it. I'm using the version contained in Fedora 23, which appears to be the most recent one

[Vala] Is there any usable editor for Vala?

2016-02-14 Thread Matthias Berndt
Hi, I wonder if you have any recommendation regarding a decent editor for Vala. I don't need much, just code completion and "go to declaration", but I can't seem to find anything that works. Here's the one's I've looked at: Anjuta: Imported the vala compiler as an autotools project, but neither

[Vala] invalid C code generated & a compiler crash

2016-02-01 Thread Matthias Berndt
Hi, The vala compiler generates invalid C code for the following program: class Aaa { public static int main(string[] args) { stdout.printf("%s\n", typeof(T).name()); return 0; } } Shouldn't it be disallowed to typeof() a type parameter in a static method (or a generic type