Re: [Vala] Port Tomboy?

[Shawn Ferris <shawn ferris gmail com>]

Search the archives for libgeetk.. Someone had done exactly that. I  
believe they were waiting for closure support in order to finish, but  
it sounded like it wasn't much trouble otherwise

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On Jun 27, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Andrea Bolognani <eof kiyuko org> wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:40:25 +0200
> Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Dne 27. červen 2009 14:32 Raphael Bosshard
> > <raphael bosshard gmail com> napsal(a):
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > just to make think clear; I don't 'hate' Mono or despise its usage  
> > > in any
> > > way. I just think that it would make sense to have some Mono-only  
> > > libraries
> > > available for the whole Gnome-stack.
> >
> > Sure, I agree with that.
> >
> > It is fine to port CLR libraries to make them usable in any language
> > (in case there is really a CLR library that has no equally usable C
> > replacement). It's porting an end-user app just make a showcase of  
> > it,
> > that I'm not happy about.
>
> What is the current state of interaction between Vala and Mono? I  
> mean,
> would it be possible to take a useful Mono library, rewrite it in  
> Vala,
> and make the Mono programs pretty much transparently use the rewrite
> instead of the original library?
>
> If that is the case, I'd call such a rewrite a gain for the GNOME  
> platform
> as a whole, since it would make a previously Mono-only library  
> available to
> all the languages in the platform.
>
> Porting a whole application just for the sake of it is hardly a  
> justifiable
> effort; it may make sense to do so if there are other benefits, like  
> better
> performance or smaller memory footprint, which I believe Vala could  
> give.
> Everything else is just propaganda.
>
> --
> Andrea Bolognani <eof kiyuko org>
> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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