Hi: I was hoping to see at least one answer to this, but now I'm really scared. I really love Vala, so the perspective of missing it is really horrible :(
El 08/09/16 a las 19:34, Timm Bäder escribió: > Hey, > > this is probably just a mail for Jürg and maybe Luca, but if you have a > relevant opinion on the matter, that might be a fine reply as well. > > So, for quite a while the Vala project has seen very little activity. > The three people most involved (Jürg, Luca and Flo) are barely on IRC > and/or otherwise reachable which makes it hard to get an opinion or info > from them. On the other hand, some people are still doing a great job, > namely Rico with all the binding work, as well as Evan (I haven't kept > up with what Al is doing other than replying to bugzilla issues that > won't be fixed unless it's a binding issue). > > Lots of people are worried about how the project will stay alive (or > if), and quite a lot of projects are written in Vala (including one I > maintain) -- and people keep porting projects from C to Vala, mostly > hoping for more contributions, hoping the Vala's C#-like syntax scares > off less people. > > Now, we all know that Vala has enough bugs that need to get fixed, as > well as lots of potential for improvements (I'll just disregard all the > wishes for special syntax for fringe features on IRC, that's not what > I'm talking about). Some of them are easy to fix but even if the patches > are present in bugzilla and their author is willing to fix them after > a review, the review just never happens. This doesn't just cause those > bugs to stay unfixed, but those people will also never get accustomed > to the internals of valac and so they will never work on anything more > important than this simple fix. > > I have tried in the past to do exactly that and post some patches for > simple fixes to get an understanding of valac internals but it's quite > frankly huge and there's not a real high-level documentation one could > work with (apart from a few very old blog posts form Luca) and neither > working tools do debug it (I've once spent a few hours on fixing valag > but then gave up...). > > > So... what's the deal here? Is there any way forward one could look > into? Is it wip/transform? IIRC there was some dbus stuff broken here? > Are there any TODO items for cleaning up the compiler? Should we just > tell people to not use Vala in the first place (which would be better > for the in the long run)? All of these are fine, but the current > situation not so much. > > > Sincerely, > Timm > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > vala-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > -- Nos leemos RASTER (Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
