Hello Vala developers, I am trying to write a different way of configuring Gtk widgets and containers, with XML tags and attributes, through gtkaml. You can view this 'jargon' as an UI-oriented mode of (still) writing Vala code.
What am I doing now is that I extend Vala.Parser, process the *.gtkaml files myself then feed *.vala files in their place. That is, text processing: given an XML, I am writing a text that represents a Vala source. Two things: 1. I saw that starting with 0.3.x, Vala got a shiny new recursive descent parser (btw, excellent job!) 2. I noticed that vala is no longer a shared library These two things concern me, in different ways, and I would like your opinion about them The first thing is that it would be nice to be able to re-use portions of the parser. Instead of just exporting vala_parser_parse () vala_parser_parse_file () it would be nice if one could directly call: vala_parser_parse_declaration () (just an example). This would alow someone to create Vala (and eventually GObject) code with other mechanisms and *also* parse snippets of Vala code. The second issue is that ever since libvala is no longer a shared library, I have to recompile gtkaml to match against it. This, I think, would be an issue for any future editors equiped with code-completion et cetera. A much cleaner way would be to re-use the parsing part of a libvala-1.0.so/dll. Tool support could depend on the first (parsing) issue too! I really am interested in your opinion about these two things. Regards, Vlad Grecescu.
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