On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 17:46 +0800, Barry Kauler wrote: > I am very interested in what you have done, with your "Multiboot" > code. I'm wondering how far this can be pushed. Is it feasible to code > in a subset of Vala/Genie such that Glib/Gobject is not required, only > the C library, so the executable could be compiled statically with > dietlibc? > > [...] > > I'm wondering though, would I quickly run into trouble if I started to > write anything more than the most elementary Vala/Genie program?
You'll hit limits quite soon if you want to use more Vala features. Various users seem to be interested in using Vala also for non-GLib based applications. I wouldn't be opposed to supporting, for example, a POSIX backend where GLib would not be mandatory. However, this is not something I will focus on for the next few months. Requiring GLib is not an issue for most users, and there is still some work left to do before we can consider a stable Vala release. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
