Hi all, Yes, I made this thread a zombie thread ! I'm a powerfull elder magician !
I've read on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752770), in a thread about Delphi, this : > insertnickname 21 hours ago [-] > Note that Vala is apparently more or less dead. > pjmlp 21 hours ago [-] > Yep, GNOME seems to be adopting Rust, with librsvg and GNOME Builder being the first places to spot it. Do you have more informations about state of vala and rust ? Regards Raum ps: original thread in HN "I miss Delphi" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752362 ps2: I've used Delphi 20 years ago ^___^ > Hey Al, > >> Hmm, that seems a little unfair. You submitted the patch on the 08 Aug >> 2016 and it was reviewed on the 10 Aug 2016. Unfortunately your first >> version of the patch included a bug that the review identified. > Well, I fixed that bug within a day. Then it took another 12 days for Jürg > to ask another question, which I responded to within 15 Minutes. Then it > took another 3 weeks for Jürg to respond to that. Now, I totally > sympathise with Jürg, most people don't have as much time to work on their > leisure projects as they would like. But please put yourself in my shoes > as somebody who's trying to get his feet wet hacking on the Vala compiler. > I mean, this is not a rewrite-the-world patch, the actual patch is -12/+7 > lines. If that takes, say, six weeks to get merged, how long will it take > to get a sufficient number of patches merged to build enough trust to get > commit access? How long will it take to get a new feature merged, one that > might be a couple hundred lines long or something? Again, I sympathise > with Jürg and his lack of time. But nevertheless these long response times > do not send the right signals to new compiler hackers. > >> I would accept there is a communication failure of the Vala release >> cycle, but I think there is a far more favourable interpretation of the >> decision not to merge the patch at the current time. >> >> >> Vala is a GNOME core project and currently follows the GNOME release >> cycle. See >> https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointTwentyoneA hard code freeze started on >> the 12 Sep 2016 and you will see Vala 0.33.1 was tagged on that day. >> Including a version of Vala with GNOME 3.22.0 that cannot build some >> packages just isn't going to happen. I would say that is why your patch >> wasn't merged at the time. > OK, I didn't understand that. I'm happy that it now looks as though the > patch will be merged soonishly. > >> BTW, thank you for your work on Vala. It looks like you have four >> patches in this next release. For anyone else who wants to see what >> Mattias's work has improved in the type system of Vala's internals see: >> >> https://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/log/?qt=author&q=matthias%20berndt > Perhaps you're right, maybe I should just be happy about the two bugfixes > I already got merged :-) > > Cheers, > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > 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
