Re: [Vala] Port Tomboy?

From: Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>
To: Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>
Cc: Vala ML <vala-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [Vala] Port Tomboy?
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:34:17 +0200

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 17:41 +0200, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote:

There are lots of reasons not to clone tomboy in Vala.  Waste of time as
you say, etc.  But saying "[wouldn't it] make [the developer] angry" is
not one of them.


I was talking about moral implication of *useless* porting to another
language, with very questionable benefit and no advancement at all.
Just a stupid shallow copy.


GNote, the C++ Tomboy port, has a smaller footprint than its C#
ancestor. So the port is not entirely worthless.

        Xav

References:
- Re: [Vala] Port Tomboy?
  - From: Michael Torrie
- Re: [Vala] Port Tomboy?
  - From: Jiří Zárevúcky

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