Good new Jim, Let me know if there is any way I can help you with that.
b On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Jim Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian Duffy wrote: > > If you really want to know if Vala can work effectively on Windows > > then you better try installing Vala (and Gtk) on windows and give it > > a whirl. > > It might be easier to look for apps written in Vala with > well-supported builds for Windows. For example there is a list of > apps at the bottom of the page here to start with: > > http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Documentation > > For example ShotWell doesn't support Windows now, but according to > this message, it used to support it but it was dropped for lack of > interest (search down for "Windows"): > > http://blog.yorba.org/lucas/2011/01/shotwell-081-released.html > > > Also, writing the base tools of a language (compiler/etc) can be the > work of one or two people, but writing a good IDE is usually much more > work and requires a team. I'm hacking with Eclipse JDT right now, and > seeing the Eclipse source code I realise that the investment that went > into that was incredible -- just so you can have quick fixes and easy > refactoring. They attempted the impossible and achieved it, and now > everyone takes it for granted. > > (My interest right now is writing an editor that works off the AST not > the source code. This means that I could have the editor show any > syntax I like, and still reformat it back to conventional syntax for > saving (and with some further tweaking, minimise the diff). Java is a > good start because Eclipse have already done a lot of the work for me, > and because I'm going to have to be coding in Java soon for a contract > anyway. One day I wonder whether it would be possible to specify a > language that is saved as an AST dump, and which displays to each user > according to their syntax preferences, e.g. Python-like for one > person, C-braces for another, functional style for another. This > would also make it easier for refactoring tools. Worth experimenting > with.) > > Jim > > -- > Jim Peters (_)/=\~/_(_) [email protected] > (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) > Uazú (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) http:// > in Peru (_) ____ /=\ ____ ~/_ ____ (_) uazu.net > -- Duff
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