Re: [Vala] Just a news I've read about popularity langage

["pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian pelzflorian de>]

On 07/21/2016 05:12 PM, Guillaume Poirier-Morency wrote:
> Le jeudi 21 juillet 2016 à 17:43 +0300, Aleksandr Palamar a écrit :
> >    3. Package Manager, Vala already has a nice place with lot of nice
> > VAPIs
> >    (https://github.com/nemequ/vala-extra-vapis), but better approach
> > to
> >    have own package manager with auto-resolving of dependencies (like
> > NPM in
> >    Node or Cargo in Rust).
>
> I would really enjoy a source package manager to retreive bindings and
> external Vala projects. So far, I'm happy with Meson and subprojects.

Why a custom package manager?

For the apps / libraries there is the distribution’s package manager.
Please do not make yet another package manager for those. This is a
solved problem.

What remains are VAPIs. Why is a custom package manager a better
approach than the vala-extra-vapis you are linking to? Your
distribution’s package manager should take care of dependency resolution
for the libraries the VAPIs are for. It also should take care of
downloading the library’s source code when requested.

Regards,
Florian Pelz