On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:25 +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: > Am Montag, den 30.06.2008, 12:30 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 13:14 +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: > > > Am Montag, den 30.06.2008, 10:31 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > > > > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 01:51 +0000, Stef wrote: > > > > > Interesting. That's a very valid concern. > > > > > > > > > > Although this is a decidedly different case. Vala is used to generate > > > > > C > > > > > code for parts of seahorse. This C code is then checked into the > > > > > repository, and included in the tarballs, so that people can build it > > > > > without vala. > > > > > > > > Right. Some of us have already been there with gob. I don't usually > > > > think it's worth the pain, but it's your code. I'll start complaining > > > > when I have to fix bugs in that code. > > > > > > Just that gob wasn't half as ambitious as Vala. gob took some kind of > > > minimum effort approach which lead to the effect that you were mixing > > > high-level gob and low-level C code all the time. This just felt flaky > > > and hackish. > > > > > > Vala on the other hand tries to provide a complete user experience. > > > Programming with it feels much better than it ever did with gob. Having > > > written quite some C# and Java code I think, that writing Vala code > > > feels as natural as with those languages. > > > > I'm not comparing featuresets. I'm saying it still feels like a > > pre-processor. It needs native autotools[1] support before it's > > considered for use in core components. > > > > > While your rant has some justification > > > > Just where you saw a rant, I don't know. I'd rather you didn't > > attribute those kind of qualifiers to my messages in the future. > > Update the bug: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472048#c11 > > The automake maintainers received a patch ages ago: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2007-09/msg00007.html > > After that I've got the FSF's copyright assignment papers sent, and I've > sent them back. No progress since then.
An excellent reason to switch to a more modular build system, one that does not require patching the core in order to extend it. Something like... WAF :-) -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list