Vala Project Generator
Vala 0.1.5 has been released. Tarballs are available from the GNOME FTP servers. I’ve added a small tool to create new Vala projects:
It generates the necessary autotools magic for a Vala console or GTK+ application including i18n support and it passes distcheck. Suggestions for improvements are more than welcome.
We’ve also replaced the bindings generator gidlgen by vala-gen-introspect which includes a real C parser instead of Perl scripts using regular expressions. The 20 included bindings have all been ported. Some smaller features and many bug fixes can also be found in the new release.
There are two articles about Vala and an interview in the German Linux-Magazin, all by Christian Meyer.
November 25th, 2007 at 21:38
Yay!
November 25th, 2007 at 21:42
Suggestion: Take a look here to make your life (and mie) easier:
http://www.anjuta.org/documentations/subpage/documents/libanjuta/project-wizard-format.html
It should not be difficult to create such a project assistent (we have to remove the word wizard…).
Johannes
November 25th, 2007 at 21:58
Hmmm… looks nice, just, what is the binary called?
ls /usr/bin/*vala* shows nothing except valac…
November 25th, 2007 at 22:05
@Johannes: This makes sense when we have some basic Vala support in Anjuta. I’d like to help but I should first take care of documenting Vala.
@Raphael: It’s called vala-gen-project. You have to run configure with –enable-gen-project as it’s not built by default currently.
November 25th, 2007 at 22:54
I want to second the comment above from Johannes, getting this in Anjuta would be extremely cool.
November 26th, 2007 at 0:18
Hi Jürg,
Congrats to you and all vala team. This sounds very cool. Anjuta-vala support would be very cool for Anjuta 2.4 Tornado !
Kind regards,
Étienne.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:43
I hope the app. generator also generate a basic glade file with a menubar, toolbar, status bar and an main area and code to load the glade file.
It will be great if the generator also setup the gconf so people can have the application save preferences from the start.
It’s really become tedious to repeat all those same steps when create new applications.
November 26th, 2007 at 14:55
Hello…
Does vala work inside windowsxp ?
November 26th, 2007 at 17:37
@dio: I haven’t checked that recently but it should build with MinGW and Visual Studio. It’s also available in Cygwin ports.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:48
Hi, i haved some problems, and i solved editing the file valaprojectgenerator.vala in lines
196: FileUtils.get_contents (”/usr/share/automake/INSTALL”, out s);
to
196: FileUtils.get_contents (”/usr/share/automake-1.9/INSTALL”, out s);
and line:
201: license_filename = “/usr/share/automake/COPYING”;
to
201: license_filename = “/usr/share/automake-1.9/COPYING”;
and finaly can run this program.
PD: i have installed in my machine Ubuntu 7.10 on amd64 ;), i am starting programming in gnome and consider make an litle documentation over continue editing this files for make my own project …. tutorial …