Re: Including extensions in Vala?

[Xan Lopez <xan gnome org>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> wrote:
> Since I learned that Python was being dropped as a language for extensions
> I've been working on porting my bookmark synchronisation extension
> (epilicious), first to Seed (which I gave up on after a short while) and
> then to something that compiles natively.  C is too painful I find, so I
> opted to write the extension in Vala (with some minor pieces in C since
> there are no Vala bindings for Epiphany yet).
>
> IIRC I still have commit rights, but I'm hesitant to push a change that
> introduces new dependencies.  Should I keep this extension out of the
> official tree (maintaining it as a patch), or should I push it?
>
> I don't care too much either way really.
>
> I should add that I have the intention of rewriting the extension in Seed at
> some point in the future.  At the time (before the 2.28 release) Seed was
> simply to much work to bother with.  I'm sure this will change, especially
> if/when libgee can be used from within it.

What would be required to add support for Vala extensions? You only
need to depend on the vala compiler at compile time?

Xan

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