hi Luca, On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Luca Dionisi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Jaromil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Q- is the Vala compiler present in emdebian, working for its targets? > > There is a debian package for mips[el] and for arm[el]. can you point them out so we have a look? i couldn't find anything in emdebian so far. regarding the target hardware for development, i suggest to take emdebian as a "meta-target", meaning: if you can compile it using the toolchains provided by emdebian, then it means you can compile it on all its targets, which are many devices indeed... this also leads to choose dependencies that are already satisfied by emdebian packages, in case the focus is that to run NTK on MIPS* and ARM* > I used it in a emulated mipsel (qemu) and in a real arm box. > > Anyway, this is not needed because valac compiles to C code. > So a classic C compiler is all you need in the target platform. as pointed out in previous mails, C code can have different dependencies and Vala generates glibc2 dependend code.. > The Pth library too is present and working in both arm and mips. yep! i think Pth is a wise choice. > The C code produced by the valac compiler could be adapted if you > search for optimizations. hardly done, yet doable. however, i think we might be exagerating in criticizing your enthusiasm on Vala. if a team is forming around this idea then let it happen! i hope you'll be happy and prosperous in the Gnome world :) it certainly won't harm to have various implementations of the same algorithm in different languages... as long as they can talk to each other, but then that's not a language dependend issue. i guess those of us that are more interested in embedded appliances will go for C, while Vala seems an interesting option for desktop users and its future portability is also realistic to imagine, all in all a good scenario for an NTK applet that runs in your tray, or things like that. ciao
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