Re: [Vala] Hackers' Guide to Vala

["Juerg Billeter" <j bitron ch>]

On Mon, April 21, 2008 20:05, Rodney Lorrimar wrote:
> As I have been browsing through the Vala code, I have started writing
> a document about various aspects of Vala that would be interesting for
> developers who would like to make their own changes.
>
> http://rodney.id.au/dev/vala/hackers.html

Nice, thanks for writing this. Please also add a link to the Wiki to make
it a bit more discoverable.

> So far it's not very complete, and possibly quite inaccurate, but I'm
> sending this out so I can ask people what they would like to read in
> this type of document. Also, it would be nice to collaborate, so if
> you have written or would like to write about some aspect of Vala,
> then please e-mail me. Lastly, since I am documenting a moving target,
> Juerg, could you provide advice on any areas in particular I should
> avoid studying because they are about to change significantly.

There are some refactorings in process, the most important one is probably
to move the backend-specific code from the CCodeGenerator class and the
different CodeNode classes to CCode*Binding classes to not have a single
huge class and backend-specific code in the core library.

Juerg