I understand your point, but maybe (for example) nodejs have a lower learning curve and a faster way to get work done because it have a great package manager.
As fas as I never used Vala beyond multiple personal little experiments, I feel that could be tools to make the life of starters better. For example, there is a *great* project that helped me in every step, Autovala. One question: is there a "standard" Vala library/classes? -- * EOF * 2016-07-21 18:25 GMT+02:00 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) < pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de>: > On 07/21/2016 05:12 PM, Guillaume Poirier-Morency wrote: > > Le jeudi 21 juillet 2016 à 17:43 +0300, Aleksandr Palamar a écrit : > >> 3. Package Manager, Vala already has a nice place with lot of nice > >> VAPIs > >> (https://github.com/nemequ/vala-extra-vapis), but better approach > >> to > >> have own package manager with auto-resolving of dependencies (like > >> NPM in > >> Node or Cargo in Rust). > > > > I would really enjoy a source package manager to retreive bindings and > > external Vala projects. So far, I'm happy with Meson and subprojects. > > > > Why a custom package manager? > > For the apps / libraries there is the distribution’s package manager. > Please do not make yet another package manager for those. This is a > solved problem. > > What remains are VAPIs. Why is a custom package manager a better > approach than the vala-extra-vapis you are linking to? Your > distribution’s package manager should take care of dependency resolution > for the libraries the VAPIs are for. It also should take care of > downloading the library’s source code when requested. > > Regards, > Florian Pelz > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > vala-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
