[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Toolkit in Vala

[Aleksey Lim]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:07:40PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> 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.

yeah, Genie has python like syntax. It shouldn't be huge probelem to
have both types since its the same Vala project but yeah, better to have
only one syntax type.

I'm personally like C like sintax from pure Vala but also ok w/ Genie.
But looks like it's not so popular(in comparing w/ pure Vala) at least
there are several Vala projects. And also a bit concerned about git
activity.

-- 
Aleksey