[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Toolkit in Vala

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 17:46, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 05:33:28PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 17:30, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > While packagin GCompris-9 for sugar, it was decided to have sugar
>> > native toolbas for GCompris in sugar environment.
>> >
>> > So, instead of coding them in plain C, new project was initiated to port
>> > sugar-toolkit to Vala[1]
>> > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/toolkit
>> > At some point we can completely switch from python sugar-toolkit to
>> > Vala based project.
>> >
>> > For now, it has minimal code(style.vala:) only for GCompris needs but
>> > any help of porting sugar-toolkit to Vala is appreciated. While porting,
>> > pleas add comments like
>>
>> Have you considered using some automatic translator from python to vala?
>
> Greate idea to use such tool. The problem here is that I can't find
> something :) I guess it won't be very popular workflow, python is pretty
> fast for GUI applications and projects that are targeted to broad lang
> support, were already written in C.

Too bad, there's also Genie, have you considered it? I don't know
which level of maturity (stability) have those languages.

Regards,

Tomeu

>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> > /**
>> >  * Port from original sugar-toolkit project.
>> >  * File:   src/sugar/graphics/style.py
>> >  * Commit: 618df4e1770d0a75709c22dc1a83942ea3d7c8aa
>> >  * Status: (complete|partial)
>> >  */
>> >
>> > [1] http://live.gnome.org/Vala
>> >
>> > --
>> > Aleksey
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>
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> Aleksey
>



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