Re: [Vala] Vala on Windows/Mac OS

[Brian Duffy <brduffy gmail com>]

Good new Jim,

Let me know if there is any way I can help you with that.

b


On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Jim Peters <jim uazu net> wrote:

> Brian Duffy wrote:
> > If you really want to know if Vala can work effectively on Windows
> > then you better try installing Vala (and Gtk) on windows and give it
> > a whirl.
>
> It might be easier to look for apps written in Vala with
> well-supported builds for Windows.  For example there is a list of
> apps at the bottom of the page here to start with:
>
>  http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Documentation
>
> For example ShotWell doesn't support Windows now, but according to
> this message, it used to support it but it was dropped for lack of
> interest (search down for "Windows"):
>
>  http://blog.yorba.org/lucas/2011/01/shotwell-081-released.html
>
>
> Also, writing the base tools of a language (compiler/etc) can be the
> work of one or two people, but writing a good IDE is usually much more
> work and requires a team.  I'm hacking with Eclipse JDT right now, and
> seeing the Eclipse source code I realise that the investment that went
> into that was incredible -- just so you can have quick fixes and easy
> refactoring.  They attempted the impossible and achieved it, and now
> everyone takes it for granted.
>
> (My interest right now is writing an editor that works off the AST not
> the source code.  This means that I could have the editor show any
> syntax I like, and still reformat it back to conventional syntax for
> saving (and with some further tweaking, minimise the diff).  Java is a
> good start because Eclipse have already done a lot of the work for me,
> and because I'm going to have to be coding in Java soon for a contract
> anyway.  One day I wonder whether it would be possible to specify a
> language that is saved as an AST dump, and which displays to each user
> according to their syntax preferences, e.g. Python-like for one
> person, C-braces for another, functional style for another.  This
> would also make it easier for refactoring tools.  Worth experimenting
> with.)
>
> Jim
>
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Duff