On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 14:24 +0200, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote: > 2009/6/27 Yu Feng <rainwood...@gmail.com>: > > On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 08:03 +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote: > >> > >> 4. Port Tomboy as a show-case project port > >> > > > > 4 seems to be very fun; how large is the codebase of tomboy? > > > > BTW: What is the largest show-case project driven by VALA, excluding > > vala itself? Here I am not limiting within project ported from mono. > > > > I'm not sure any "show-case port" is a good idea. The differences and > comparison can be written down in a single document. Regardless > the potential advantages of two directly comparable > project, imagine what would it cause in a larger scale. gnote is > already seen as a "good" counterpart to an "evil" project in the eyes > of almost religionistic mono-haters and it is a denial of Tomboy's > actual achievement. Imagine that someone would copy your original cool > project just because he doesn't like the language. I'm sure it would > make you angry. > > If some of the Vala community try to make it some kind of > "replacement" to Mono platform (which itself is a stupid idea) the > earlier noted group would immediately make it to be some kind of > "saviour that shall release us from the hands of all evil (Mono, > Microsoft, Novell)". That could possibly result in a complete > alienation of Vala and Mono communities. > > Vala must by no means accept any role in the "struggle" (more like a > series of irrational personal insults in my opinion) that is taking > place between the Mono community and those who are not willing to > accept their freedom of choice. It would only hurt the project. > > Well, so much for my opinions on this matter. > I agree with you. Porting for the porting's sake is nothing but harmful.
Nonetheless I still think if VALA needs bigger, live projects to increase the level awareness which it deserves. At least among the open-source vala projects tracked by ohloh, I don't see any of them a critical application(by critical I mean a real develop team, active development and large codebase). I don't think this situation is healthy for the language's eco-system. I would like to do a survey/study about the situation. How do you think? Regards, Yu > -- Jury _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
