Re: [Vala] valaDevelop

[Wolfgang Mauer <wolfgang mauer kabelmail de>]

> My personal experience was that I tried to run it on my Elementary 4.1
Dependency say -> Elementary >= 5.0
With Elementary>= 5 valaDevelop runs out of the box...

> If you had no plans of making money with
Definitely not!

> In the case of having the source code I would even could tried to 
compile downgrading the GTK version without losing features
I understand, but even i you have the source it would not work in order 
of other dependencies(you can try meson build with the C source)

> That's where immediately went back to Sublime Text.
As a developer, I used editors and tools 30 years ago, I did not believe 
that this is always the case.


And if you file a issue, to let me know you have a problem, i may be 
able to make valaDevelop run on Elementray 4.1



Am 11.05.19 um 08:27 schrieb Dev_NIX:
> I feel like Canek, but I have to give all my kudos to Rastersoft. 
> There are not much documented Vala source samples around there and 
> each example helps people to get used to the language. I can 
> understand the corporate background, but the companies relays in one 
> way or another on open source software. If you had no plans of making 
> money with (Yet Another) IDE, I don't see the point of not open 
> sourcing it.
>
> My personal experience was that I tried to run it on my Elementary 4.1 
> box (not so old, I guess!) and I had a GTK dependency problem that I 
> could not fix. That's where immediately went back to Sublime Text.
>
> In the case of having the source code I would even could tried to 
> compile downgrading the GTK version without losing features, or even 
> baking an appimage. Just didn't saw the point of so much activity on 
> the mail list when I had a binary that just didn't run, and a pile of 
> messages with so humbleless attitude. I don't want this to be 
> interpreted as a flame, but a constructive point of view that may help 
> you in future projects (or maybe even still this one).
>
> Kind regards.
>
> El vie., 10 may. 2019 21:42, Canek Peláez Valdés via vala-list 
> <vala-list gnome org <mailto:vala-list gnome org>> escribió:
>
>     On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 8:06 AM Wolfgang Mauer
>     <wolfgang mauer kabelmail de <mailto:wolfgang mauer kabelmail de>>
>     wrote:
>
>     > I think(hope) it's not just because it's not open source...
>     >
>
>     It is because it's not open source.
>
>     Best regards.
>     -- 
>     Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés
>     Profesor de Carrera Asociado C
>     Departamento de Matemáticas
>     Facultad de Ciencias
>     Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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