Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

Thanks Jaffa for the Vala 0.7.3, had lots of issues with bad c code with the older versions, but latest fixed them. Anyways, few questions:

What the heck can I use for IO? Only FileUtils seems to work for basic file reading, but I need better than that. Diablo GLib seems to be too old for gio/gio-unix that I need. I installed libgio-dev, but it fails to compile with:

Why is that in repos if it doesn't work or am I missing a lib it needs? Error seems to point to a newer GLib.

What about UDP? I need multicast udp and can't find a lib for that either. I had to do it C so I can add it to c code, but I'd rather use Vala for that too.

Also libsoup-2.2 seems to be buggy, I get all kinds of weird stuff in body like extra chars and even headers etc, so I had to add ugly separators to rule them out.

Vala ain't that bad once you get the hang of it and I do love the speed, but these issues are really making it unsuitable for my needs. Any advice especially for my io-problem?

Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

You will also have those issues with C you know :) The problem is the old libraries on the NIT and Vala can't change that. At least in Frematle they updated at last.

What are you trying to do with files that requres GIO?

Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

Actually I need it for this:

http://valadoc.org/?pkg=glib-2.0&ele...ync_with_pipes

Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

I don't see anything related to GIO in Process.spawn_async_with_pipes?

Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

It returns a file descriptor for the input and I need a way to write to that.

Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

Thank you!!1

Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

Okay Jaffa, I managed to get Tear compiling on 0.7.3 without any additional changes, I'm using WAF for building (and deb building), so how can I get mud builder to use WAF? :)

Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

You might not need to use mud-builder to use WAF. As long as you've got a debian/rules file in your tarball which has a number of simple targets (the vala-sample example is pretty minimal ;-)) you should be able to upload the tarball straight to the auto-builder.

Re: Vala for Maemo development
 

That overall means that I shouldn't use WAF at all, eh? :) Because if I should have a Makefile and a rules file then I should do all the build config again, only this time through make/dpkg-buildpackage and a lot harder and confusing... :(