Re: [Vala] libvfcgi 0.0.1

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

I have added a link to your project from the main site:

 http://live.gnome.org/Vala#head-6c7c591339beb12e8ad941afa337a0115567c0b9

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some people on the list indicated interest in progress on a FastCGI
> library for Vala.  I have released v0.0.1 of the libvfcgi library.
> Please tell me if announcements of future releases of this library are
> welcome here on this list.
>
> Libvfcgi is a library that implements FastCGI for GObject and Vala
> applications, written in Vala. It aims to fully implement the FastCGI
> specification and make FastCGI Web application servers accessible to
> Vala programmers and GObject C programmers. Note that while it is
> possible to use the library from GObject C, it is designed for use with
> Vala and may be tedious to use directly in C.
>
> Version 0.0.1 doesn't do anything useful yet.  It lays the foundation,
> however.  It builds (with a lot of warnings at the moment; a perfectly
> clean build is a high-priority goal, but for the moment it's highly
> likely that the code is blatantly incorrect and thus the warnings, it's
> a "first draft" of sorts), but it has not been put to use since there is
> no way to test it just yet.  What will be happening is that I plan to
> have a 0.0.2 release in two weeks that adds the following things on the
> base:
>
>  * Support for handling the Responder FastCGI role, which is the
>    role that most FastCGI applications will want to use normally.
>  * Handle management records.
>
> The 0.0.2 release will be the first release that one will be able to
> actually use to write a useful FastCGI application in Vala.  My plan is
> to have it released in 2 to 3 weeks.
>
> libvfcgi installs as libvfcgi0.  It uses the GNU build system, and
> working with the source code from the VCS trunk branch requires that you
> have at least the following:
>
>   * Vala 0.7.6 (present in Ubuntu Karmic)
>   * Automake 1.11 (present in Ubuntu Karmic)
>   * Autoconf 2.60 (Karmic has 2.64)
>   * GLib 2.22 or newer.
>   * GIO 2.22 or newer.
>
> The project is available on Launchpad and uses the bzr version control
> system.  The project page is located at:
>
>   https://launchpad.net/libvfcgi
>
> The library is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL v3.0.  When
> "make install" is done, the vapi file will be installed in the Vala VAPI
> directory (as determined by "pkg-config --variable=vapidir vala-1.0",
> or, if that isn't available, by checking /usr/share/vala/vapi
> and /usr/local/share/vala/vapi for glib-2.0.vapi directly) if one is
> present and findable.  (Is there a better way to do this, say, by asking
> Vala where it stores those things directly?)
>
> Questions, comments, patches, etc., are all welcome.  I know that Vala
> uses git, but I can't do a project in git.  If someone knows how to
> setup a one-way git mirror of bzr projects, I'd like to know about it so
> that it can be linked to from the Launchpad project page.
>
> Patches are preferred as bzr branches on Launchpad, but a bzr merge
> directive or output from bzr diff, git diff, or diff -urN is also
> perfectly fine.  Patches that do not come in a manner that bzr
> understands natively will have the "author" attribute on the commit
> marked to be the name and email address on the email that I get that has
> the commit on it, unless requested otherwise.
>
>         Happy hacking,
>         Mike
>
>