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

[Mario Daniel Ruiz Saavedra <desiderantes rocketmail com>]

For a package manager, GNU Guix could be of use. Regarding a standard library, that's GLib.
 
 
  El jue., jul. 21, PM a 16:56, Dev_NIX<devnix code gmail com> escribió:   I understand your point, but maybe 
(for example) nodejs have a lower
learning curve and a faster way to get work done because it have a great
package manager.

As fas as I never used Vala beyond multiple personal little experiments, I
feel that could be tools to make the life of starters better. For example,
there is a *great* project that helped me in every step, Autovala.

One question: is there a "standard" Vala library/classes?

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2016-07-21 18:25 GMT+02:00 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
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