Re: [Vala] POSIX and Dova profiles
Hi, On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 08:44 +0800, Nor Jaidi Tuah wrote: I'm not sure what gaps in gobject that Dova is supposed to fill in. But is it possible to improve gobject to incorporate those features? Perhaps the vala team can make suggestion to the glib team. This is certainly a valid question. However, it's more about different approaches and concepts than about missing features. There will be differences in memory management (simpler and less frequent use of reference counting, stack-allocated objects), much simpler object construction, fibers (multiple stacks) instead of async callbacks, and more. Most of these differences cannot be integrated into GObject for compatibility reasons and thus, such experiments have to be carried out in separate projects. Regards, Jürg ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
Re: [Vala] POSIX and Dova profiles
Vala is always marketed as being integrated with GObject, which I think is advantage - IMO to make product consistent team should focus on Vala/GObject. m. 2012/8/3 Jürg Billeter j...@bitron.ch: Hi, valac has had experimental support to build applications without GLib for a while now. However, the POSIX profile still supports only a subset of the language and there is no indication that this will change anytime soon. I'm still working on the experiment that started with Dova, but the differences to Vala/GObject have grown to a point that it no longer makes sense to maintain both compilers in the same repository. Is anyone actively using either of these two profiles despite their limitations? If that is not the case, I'd be in favor of dropping them from master and keeping the focus on GLib/GObject. Any comments? Regards, Jürg ___ 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
Re: [Vala] POSIX and Dova profiles
I'm not sure what gaps in gobject that Dova is supposed to fill in. But is it possible to improve gobject to incorporate those features? Perhaps the vala team can make suggestion to the glib team. Sorry if my suggestion is naive. Nice day Nor Jaidi Tuah ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
