[Vala] Port Tomboy?

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 08:03 +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Raphael Bosshard wrote: 
> > I'd rather like a possibility to automatically convert (or
> > semi-convert, with manual fixes) C# code to Vala. There are some
> > C#/Mono libraries out there (like Banshees ListView implementation)
> > which provide a real benefit. Right now these libraries are only
> > available to Mono applications. In some cases it would make sense to
> > have a 'low level' implementation. It would be nice if they were
> > available for the whole Gnome eco-system.
> I hadn't considered how it would enrich gnome in general, but of
> course you are right, and this is one of the advantages of Vala.
>
>
> The "on topic" results of the thread so far are:
>
>      1. automatic language conversion of C#
>         The code won't compile but the syntax would be valid. 
>               * Maybe Vala's parser could parse C# into a Vala AST
>                 which it could re-emit as vala code
>               * Maybe some perl/python tool to fix up or highlight the
>                 various constructs
>               * Maybe just conversion of the mono project files into
>                 an automake file
>      2. vapi/vala re-writes of some common mono dependencies
>         (This would also improve the gnome eco-system)
>         If these can be made available to mono again, it would support
>         a seamless bottom up migration
>      3. Improve vala documentation (particularly to be useful for
>         developers not familiar with gobject)
>      4. Port Tomboy as a show-case project port
4 seems to be very fun; how large is the codebase of tomboy?

BTW: What is the largest show-case project driven by VALA, excluding
vala itself? Here I am not limiting within project ported from mono.


-Yu
> Sam 
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