Re: [Vala] Worried about the state of Genie

2013-09-08 Thread Tal Liron
It doesn't seem that Jamie has the capacity -- or any one single person would -- to maintain Genie at the same depth as the Vala dialect. Frankly, fixing serious bugs once a year is not enough for a cutting-edge programming language. And it's falling far behind Vala in features. After some

Re: [Vala] Worried about the state of Genie

2013-09-08 Thread Luca Bruno
It would be easier to add the newer syntax to Genie and keep supporting it rather than creating a tool translating from Genie to Vala. Syntax changes are done rarely (one or two in a year). It's only about syncing Genie once in a while. The Genie code is so small that I'm sure any Genie programmer

Re: [Vala] Worried about the state of Genie

2013-09-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 14:22 +0800, Tal Liron wrote: After some thinking, I want to make this suggestion: Jamie, or anyone else, would it be possible to write a tool to translate Genie files to Vala? I imagine this would not be too hard with the current Genie parser code. This would allow

Re: [Vala] Worried about the state of Genie

2013-09-08 Thread Tal Liron
Thank you for your suggestion, but I don't have time to support yet another free software project at the moment. (A contribute to and manage over 20 projects.) My contributions have been in promoting Genie by giving talks about it, as well as opening many bugs. I'm willing to help in testing

Re: [Vala] [Genie] Growing the community (Al Thomas)

2013-09-08 Thread Tarnyko
Hi Gontzal, txasatonga writes: Hello Al!! Now I'm trying to write SDL2.0 vapi for Vala and Genie. With the help of Tarnyko maybe we can port it to Android /IOs... See it on gitorius to:http://gitorious.org/sdl-2-0-vala-vapi I think you're overestimating my capacity to work on multiple