Sometimes it's absolutely necessary due to naming conflicts between
imported libraries. Without this feature, Vala is broken in those instances.
There was a patch that I assumed would be accepted (2.5 years ago!), but
apparently was never merged:
Small comment: Do we really have to call them legacy C libraries?
Legacy implies that these are old-style libraries that we eventually
want to move away from, but in fact the culture of Vala is happy
coexistence with C libraries now and in the future, so it's not a legacy
at all.
I suggest
Landon,
Jamie has been doing a great job in responding to bugs in the last few
days. He probably needed the jolt from this mailing list to realize
that, yes, there is interest in Genie, and people are writing big things
in it. I hope this trend will continue. Also, it seems that some of the
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
Genie projects to
Vala. :(
On 09/08/2013 03:48 PM, Jürg Billeter wrote:
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
I'm not sure how Genie is more transitional than Vala in your view.
Both offer the same benefits, just with a different syntax.
Some of the bugs are real bugs: things that are supposed to work but don't.
Some of them are requests to get Genie on par with Vala features --
there are things you
overall value.
Jamie, I hope you will step up! Genie a terrific contribution to free
software.
On 08/29/2013 05:10 PM, Jürg Billeter wrote:
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 16:53 +0800, Tal Liron wrote:
But this discussion on specifics is pointless if no work will be done on
Genie! I believe
-recorded talk about Genie a while ago and it generated a
bit of interest:
http://pyvideo.org/speaker/836/tal-liron
(Some problems with sound in the first few minutes, later fixed)
-Tal
On 08/28/2013 07:50 PM, Steven Oliver wrote:
You're not the first, and sadly, I'm sure, you won't be the last
I think Genie is a wonderful idea, and have invested a lot in it: three
rather large applications, and more coming in the future.
However, I'm very concerned about its future. It has some serious
linguistic problems and bugs. I've reported many of them on Bugzilla:
