[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Toolkit in Vala

[Wade Brainerd]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> No, it just generates the C code which is then compiled by gcc. See
> http://live.gnome.org/Vala for further details.

Oh; I get that.  I was just wondering what Aleksey planned to do with
the C code once generated.  It sounds like he's just added it directly
the GCompris makefiles.

Best,
Wade