Don't know :-) I've seen some C++ to C translators before in times when writing direct c++ compiler from scratch was considered to be too much work. Also the moc compiler in QT is in some way similar but otherwise quite different.

Vala is layer that finally allows me to start coding for GTK and stay sane. If you look at current code written in C for GTK, D-bus etc, it already looks like autogenerated from some high level oo language like Vala :-) I don't believe anyone would type it all by hand. Certainly not me in my spare time and for free :-) Vala is specific to glib gobject system that needs to be used anyway so one can just save himself the pain and still get same result. Or at least that's the theory. The other alternatives like Python, Mono, Java all come with some price.

BTW, to stay on topic, here is another attempt to solve the PAN issue
http://tabletoid.blogspot.com/2008/0...onnection.html