[Shotwell] some general arguments on devel and unix toolbox and so on (Re: Two features I'm really missing ....)

[Eric Gregory]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:10 PM, pt <pt at traversin.org> wrote:

>
> I thought vala was just a C compiler: is shotwell not straight C?
>

No, Vala is what's called a "source compiler."  It compiles Vala, which is
sort of Java-like into C.  Then GCC compiles it into native binaries.

For a more complete explanation of Vala, check out the official tutorial
here:
https://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial

 - Eric