[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Toolkit in Vala

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:30 AM, 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.
>
> Wow!!
>
> I think even for Python based activities, having the Sugar toolkit
> written in C will decrease activity startup time.
>
> And for non-Python activities, it will finally be possible to use
> native Sugar widgets such as the toolbar.
>
> I presume the plan is to use 0install to download the Vala toolkit?

Not sure how that would work. Vala generates C code which then needs
to be compiled. It doesn't provide any advantage to your average end
user its just another way to develop C code.

Peter