Re: [Vala] bugs

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 22:36 +0200, pancake wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:17:13 +0200
> Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> > I don't want to make half a build-system out of valac, the -X option
> > should work fine the same way it does for C compilation.
>
> Can I change the compiler used by valac?

Yes, use --cc=COMMAND.

> > > A little question... is there any way to browse namespaces classes and methods?
> > > a cmdline tool to query this will be nice for an IDE (or vim ;) integration for
> > > method autocompletion and so.
> >
> > You can do that via libvala, although it's probably too slow for IDE
> > integration right now as it has to parse the VAPI files every time -
> > unless you just keep the symbol tree in memory. A binary - possibly
> > mmap-able - cache file might make sense here.
>
> Is there any introspection api for doing it at runtime offering a dbus service
> for querying?

No, I also don't think that it makes a lot of sense as a dbus service,
as it's not really a desktop service, rather project-specific.
Integration into IDEs via a library should work fine.

> BTW a 'valadoc' tool would be cool :) I think this can be done hacking a bit on
> the valac parser code to avoid dupping the parser code.

There will be such a tool and it will reuse the parser of libvala.

> Another question. Are you planning to add any scripting facility for Vala?
>
> Something like a SWIG interface generator for different scripting languages
> that emits vala code to implement the native interface to bridge the
> script engine and the core application.
>
> This way it will be somewhat easy to make a Vala application be extended with
> python, perl, javascript, lua, php or whatever else.

We're planning to write a bindings generator for Python (and more), that
will be useful as bindings for libraries and also for plug-in systems.

Jürg