Hi,
I currently look after seed (more just applying patches from bug reports these days).
There is not currently any major effort to work on or improve seed.
That said, For the most it works.. and can be used to write programs.
There are a few caveats however. as I have used it for a while on a few utility projects.
* raw char* support is almost non-exististant, (eg. strings that are not unicode - like an image for example)
* there are a few edge case data types that have not been done.
* memory leaks for long running applications can be problematic. (there are a few minor ones, which add up over time) - it also appears that webkit can be a bit unforgiving for long running scripts.
Personally, I still use it for a few things, but I've basically ported all the seed code I wrote to Vala, (which is surprisingly simple) and the code is pretty similar.
I'm still messing around with _javascript_Core Vala bindings, which need a bit of C trickery to work correctly in Vala, I might even try mixing libseed Vala bindings - it's kind of useful for parts of the application that need to be a bit more flexible...
Regards
Alan
On Monday, April 13, 2015 07:44 PM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
Hi,
What is the status of seed and libseed? Are they the preferred tools to write GNOME Gtk apps in _javascript_? The mailing list archives for seedkit and libseed show fairly light traffic; is the seed approach still supported in GNOME? I've tried to follow some tutorials online but getting seed installed on my Debian platform is non-trivial. Its not packaged for Jessie and many of the dependecies appear to have changed names or need to be compiled in, like mprf.h. I'm not sure if I should invest the time to install seed if the project is not active.
Regards,
Jeremiah
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