Further to the Mono discussion: review request for vala

Michel Salim michel.salim at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 18:21:58 UTC 2006


There is some concern over the future status of the Mono stack in
Fedora, given the Novell-Microsoft agreement. Developers who like C#
as a language might be interested in exploring this new 'language',
Vala: http://vala.paldo.org.

Vala is a language with C#-like syntax, built around GObject. The
compiler generates C code that can then be compiled against the
standard GNOME libraries as usual.

One of the text editors for GNOME, Scratchpad, has already been ported
from C# to Vala:
http://dborg.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/scratchpad-meets-vala/

If you're interested, please take the time and review the Vala package
for Fedora Extras:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214227

Many thanks,

-- 
Michel Salim

Don't worry about avoiding temptation -- as you grow older, it starts
avoiding you.
                -- The Old Farmer's Almanac




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