I 'm spending all my applications python Vala , I would like to know the current state of Vala . Maybe I can contribute in some way to its continuity.
2016-09-09 18:50 GMT-03:00 rastersoft <ras...@rastersoft.com>: > Hi: > > I was hoping to see at least one answer to this, but now I'm really > scared. I really love Vala, so the perspective of missing it is really > horrible :( > > > El 08/09/16 a las 19:34, Timm Bäder escribió: > > Hey, > > > > this is probably just a mail for Jürg and maybe Luca, but if you have a > > relevant opinion on the matter, that might be a fine reply as well. > > > > So, for quite a while the Vala project has seen very little activity. > > The three people most involved (Jürg, Luca and Flo) are barely on IRC > > and/or otherwise reachable which makes it hard to get an opinion or info > > from them. On the other hand, some people are still doing a great job, > > namely Rico with all the binding work, as well as Evan (I haven't kept > > up with what Al is doing other than replying to bugzilla issues that > > won't be fixed unless it's a binding issue). > > > > Lots of people are worried about how the project will stay alive (or > > if), and quite a lot of projects are written in Vala (including one I > > maintain) -- and people keep porting projects from C to Vala, mostly > > hoping for more contributions, hoping the Vala's C#-like syntax scares > > off less people. > > > > Now, we all know that Vala has enough bugs that need to get fixed, as > > well as lots of potential for improvements (I'll just disregard all the > > wishes for special syntax for fringe features on IRC, that's not what > > I'm talking about). Some of them are easy to fix but even if the patches > > are present in bugzilla and their author is willing to fix them after > > a review, the review just never happens. This doesn't just cause those > > bugs to stay unfixed, but those people will also never get accustomed > > to the internals of valac and so they will never work on anything more > > important than this simple fix. > > > > I have tried in the past to do exactly that and post some patches for > > simple fixes to get an understanding of valac internals but it's quite > > frankly huge and there's not a real high-level documentation one could > > work with (apart from a few very old blog posts form Luca) and neither > > working tools do debug it (I've once spent a few hours on fixing valag > > but then gave up...). > > > > > > So... what's the deal here? Is there any way forward one could look > > into? Is it wip/transform? IIRC there was some dbus stuff broken here? > > Are there any TODO items for cleaning up the compiler? Should we just > > tell people to not use Vala in the first place (which would be better > > for the in the long run)? All of these are fine, but the current > > situation not so much. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > Timm > > _______________________________________________ > > vala-list mailing list > > vala-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > > > > -- > Nos leemos > RASTER (Linux user #228804) > ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com > > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > vala-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
