I readed time ago about Dova ( https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Dova), seems like the project was stopped to focus efforts on the language itself.
I wonder if a stronger community could help building a standard application framework 100% in Vala, with easier building tools and a good dependency manager. -- * EOF * 2016-07-21 23:59 GMT+02:00 Mario Daniel Ruiz Saavedra < desideran...@rocketmail.com>: > For a package manager, GNU Guix could be of use. Regarding a standard > library, that's GLib. > > El jue., jul. 21, PM a 16:56, Dev_NIX > <devnix.c...@gmail.com> escribió: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
