Re: [Vala] Vala Code Samples

[Marc-André Lureau <marcandre lureau gmail com>]

Hi

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Frederik <scumm_fredo gmx net> wrote:
> Emad Al-Bloushi wrote:
> > Peace be upon you all ,
> >
> > Regarding to Vala Code Sample I would like to thank you for your great valuable job and I have a list of 
> > suggestions to facilitate testing and increase ease of development as described  below :
> >
> > Clean all available samples from deprecated syntax
>
> There should not be much deprecated syntax. Sometimes I build the
> examples on my machine to make sure that they compile with the latest
> Vala release.

Some time ago, I wrote a script to update the wiki example in
vala-tests (although it seems people don't like the extra tag, because
it breaks line-counting...)

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/vala-tests/tree/update-from-wiki.sh

> > and deprecated GNOME libraries.
> > Increase samples categories (Glib , GIO , Mysql ... etc) with their subcategories (GLib.Environment , 
> > GLib.Math , GLib.Shell ... etc).
>
> I have tried to restructure the samples section into categories. Don't
> know if they make more sense. And I agree with you. For example, I would
> like to see the GTK+ samples page to be expanded into a GTK+ tutorial.

Perhaps you should investigate in http://valadoc.org/ ?

> > Allow developers in Vala list to post you their well tested samples.
>
> The GNOME Live wiki is open for everyone to contribute.
>
> > I think we can make testing and developing mechanism much better and easier to the current developers and 
> > newbie developers

Any idea?

best regards

-- 
Marc-André Lureau
Sent from Barcelona, Spain