Re: [Vala] Zeitgeist porting



On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:31:13 -0400
Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com> wrote:

Why?

Whilst it has some interesting ideas, its a mere prototype and is by and
large irrelevant to gnome as it stands (and thats true of gnome-shell as
well - they are both purely experimental)

Both the new GNOME Shell and GNOME Zeitgeist are going to be core components
of GNOME 3.0, according to [1].

If the ideas prove worthy it will be rewritten in a non-vm language and
will likely use tracker which is infinitely more powerful given the
ability to show all your docs, music, photos as derived from its indexer

I very much doubt an important always on component will be acceptable if
its coded in a VM - that has been the way with gnome to date and I dont
see that changing

I sure hope so. Using Vala would give most of the benefits of C# without
incurring in the same overhead.


[1] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/Plan
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Andrea Bolognani <eof kiyuko org>
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