Hi, في ر، 21-07-2010 عند 14:51 +0200 ، كتب andi: > Hi list, > I was wondering if anyone could give me or point me at some information > on dova and its aims. I've been googling for quite some time now and > read a bit of code in the gitorous repo. Of course, I also found the > page on live.gnome.org. Its aim is mainly to have vala without the quirks and limitations of GObject. Vala with dova should be closer to Java and C# than now (but it'll still be better ;-)) > But I still don't know the difference between GObject and dova. What new > features will there be in dova, are dova objects compatible with > GObjects in a way? dova objects aren't compatible with GObject. I think there is a plan for runtime bindings at some point but I don't know the details. > Can dova by any chance be considered GObject 2.0? You mean GObject 3, right? I think it could be more like "glib 4" (I think this was the "codename" used to refer to dova as it was still an idea) > The ability to closely work with gobject libraries is a big benefit of > vala, what kind of improvements will the dova framework earn us? When you start using vala seriously (especially coming from Java/C#) you'll find some difficulties related to how GObject works. Sometimes vala works around them (e.g. constructor chaining-up), and sometimes it cannot. > Scripting is also mentioned on live.gnome.org - will there be a JIT-like > approach? ATM, there is the vala command so you can do something like vala --pkg=gtk+-2.0 myfile.vala and have it compiled and run (tcc does something like this for C). it should also work with '#!' in the beggining of the file. > I hope I didn't bother you with question the have already been > answered... apart from one very short mail on this list and the somewhat > shallow live.gnome.org page I really didn't find anything that describes > the aims of dova. Someone would have to play with dova enough to understand it and write something to the wiki.
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