Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-13 Thread Dr. Michael Lauer
Hi folks, it’s great to see this discussion finally moving – albeit somewhat late. With Luca leaving the project ([Vala] Leaving the project ), the situation is now even more critical. Given that Joerg obviously has

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-13 Thread Gilzad Hamuni
I consider myself a Vala user and I'd also welcome a donate-button if it really helps the project. Hadn't there been Vala, I most probably wouldn't get in touch with all the glib stuff as a developer. C and CPP take too much effort to gain the same goals. C# is beautiful but still wastes CPU

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-13 Thread Victor Aurélio Santos
Now... [CCode (cname = "connect_port", has_target = false)] public delegate void DescriptorConnectPort(Handle? instance, ulong port, ref double dataLocation); results in: src/CompressorBackend.c: In function ‘ajami_compressor_backend_connect’: src/CompressorBackend.c:674:2: error: unknown

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-13 Thread Aaron Andersen
Hello Victor, You have chosen one of the more difficult C libraries to bind to Vala. The way this library is setup so contrary to the GObject way of doing things it is certainly an edge case. Unfortunately this library requires a small C header "helper" file to accompany your vapi. The

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-13 Thread Al Thomas
> - Original Message - > From: Victor Aurélio Santos > Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 15:55 > Subject: Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings > Now... > [CCode (cname = "connect_port", has_target = false)] > public delegate void DescriptorConnectPort(Handle?

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-13 Thread Guillaume Poirier-Morency
Hi, I've been playing with Vala for about two years or so and like very much what I can do with it. I have to agree with Matthias: improvement and correctness go over backward-compatibility at this stage. It's perfectly fine to use a specific compiler version to build broken software and disting

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-13 Thread Matthias Berndt
Hey, > With Luca leaving the project ([Vala] Leaving the project > ), > the situation is now even more > critical. Given that Joerg obviously has no time or interest it basically > means that there > is no-one left

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-13 Thread Al Thomas
> - Original Message - > From: Victor Aurélio Santos > Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 3:22 > Subject: Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings >[CCode (has_target = false)] >public delegate void DescriptorConnectPort(Handle? instance, ulong > port, ref

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-13 Thread Ulink
Am 2016-09-13 um 02:10 schrieb Michael Gratton: > It really sounds like Vala needs some maintainers. I think there are some Vala USERS out there, which are able and willing to help with some minor and/or simple tasks and don't know how. So the "heavy weights" like Jürg, Luca, Evan and the like

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-13 Thread Gergely Polonkai
I think you are missing prefixes: [CCode (lower_case_cprefix="", …)] Victor Aurélio Santos ezt írta (időpont: 2016. szept. 13., K, 4:23): > What I've done: > > [Compact, CCode (cname = "void")] > public class Handle { > // ... > } > > [CCode