Re: Vala and jhbuild

["Adam Schreiber" <sadam clemson edu>]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Stef <stef-list memberwebs com> wrote:
> Adam Schreiber wrote:
>> Could you please install jhbuild and the latest vala module it has and
>> test any vala changes you make?
>
> I've tried installing jhbuild and it always has problems for me. I tried
> again and there were so many errors, HTTP 404's etc.. that I gave up.
>
>> 0.5.x is a very different beast than 0.3.5 and it's causing the build
>> to break.  The latest is that seahorse-commands.vala doesn't add a
>> #include "seahorse-pgp.h" to seahorse-commands.c anymore and the
>> #defines aren't defined in seahorse-commands.c.
>
> However, the good news is, and I hope this is good news ... I've been
> changing the Vala code back to C code every time I touch a file. So as
> it stands now there's just one remaining Vala file in the tree.
>
> Why? The goal of using vala was to make seahorse more hackable. But it
> turns out, at least at this stage in vala's development, it wasn't
> really helping.
>
> The biggest draw back was that one had to understand what was happening
> in the C code beneath vala in order to fix problems that would arise.
> Vala would have peculiar behaviors, and as such was not an abstraction
> that could be relied on.
>
> Perhaps the experiences of a fully vala coded project would be
> different. And I'm sure vala will progress to be something solid.
>
> Vala taught me a lot about GObject, and I believe that seahorse has
> benefited in many ways. It's a great project to be involved in, if
> anyone is looking for some cool hacking to do, and I hope that vala
> really succeeds.

I just built seahorse with jhbuild so removing vala seems to be a win
there.  I'm kind of sad to see it go in places, because it did make
some things easier.

Cheers,

Adam