Comments on: Vala 0.1.3

By: juergbi

juergbi — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:19:34 +0000

@Xav: That’s right, the GStreamer bindings missed the tarball in 0.1.2, it was already available in SVN.

@rcares: I’m working on it, the beginning of a language manual is already in SVN, includung an index file for Devhelp.

By: rcares

rcares — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:07:36 +0000

Please, get up the documetation for develop …

By: Xav

Xav — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:58:39 +0000

You forgot Gstreamer in the binding list (it wasn’t in 0.1.2).

Xav

By: Simon Gray

Simon Gray — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:26:51 +0000

Thanks for answering my question. It’s great to hear that Vala has Unicode support. I’m looking forward to trying out Vala once documentation is there, don’t mind the fact that it is sort of Gnome-biased

By: juergbi

juergbi — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:51:37 +0000

@pinky: You’re right about that. We’re aware of the missing documentation and will try to focus on stabilization and writing documentation instead of features for the following releases.

By: pinky

pinky — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:40:43 +0000

Looks really promising. But there is one thing i’m really missing: good documentation.

I know that hacking is more fun than writing documentation. But Vala has a great opportunity and it is quite small and young. So if you take care about documentation from the beginning it would be quite easy to keep Vala good documented and this is a key issue to make other people like it and use it.

Software is more than just code, documentation is also a very important part of it. New code/bindings should only be accepted if it comes with good (API-)documentation. I think that’s the only way to make sure that Vala becomes a good language. Without (API-)documentation a programming language is just useless.

By: juergbi

juergbi — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:57:19 +0000

@Tristen: I’m not really familiar with Objective-C but I guess you can look at it like that.

@Simon: Yes, strings in Vala are UTF-8 encoded and the methods of the string class use the Unicode manipulation functions of GLib. A unichar represents a single Unicode character.

@bersace: That won’t work yet to register a ParamSpec or Boxed type but that’s the idea. It’s definitively planned to support that for Boxed types but it should also be possible to add ParamSpec support.

By: bersace

bersace — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:33:18 +0000

Wow ! You rock !

does this mean i could e.g. do a

class MyParamSpec : ParamSpec {
}

To create a derivative of GParamSpec ? The same for Boxed type ?

Would be so nice !

Regards.

By: Simon Gray

Simon Gray — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:32:43 +0000

Does Vala support Unicode strings like C# and D?

By: Tristen

Tristen — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:32:13 +0000

The more I read about Vala, the more I think that it is to Glib/GObject what Objective-C is to NSFoundation. Is this a correct way to think about it?