[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Toolkit in Vala

[Wade Brainerd]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, I was assuming that the generated C code would then be compiled
into a shared library that could be exported to Python and other
languages, thus providing first class support to languages like Mono
and Ruby and also providing faster-loading Python bindings than what
we have now.

-Wade