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Since mud-builder made it so easy, I dropped in 3 icons and a .desktop file and made vala-sample startable from the applications menu:
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After a bit of a prod; and a delay; mud-builder's vala recipe has been updated to the latest release 0.5.7 and uploaded to Extras-Devel as "vala" - this can now be used in Build-Depends lines in auto-builder packages.
What is Vala?
Vala is a modern, object-oriented programming language with a syntax inspired by C# and Java. However, it compiles to native code (via C), giving the benefits of modern programming languages and the speed of native development.
From its website:
I've also uploaded another little package - vala-sample (basically, HildonSample) - which demonstrates that a Build-Depends line containing "vala" can be built using the auto-builder:
This sample (apart from showing how easy it is to package stuff with mud) demonstrates that unlike other modern programming languages on Maemo (such as Python, Ruby, Java or C#) there is no additional start-up lag in a Vala application.
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Last edited by Jaffa; 2009-03-16 at 23:15. Reason: Vala Sample is installable through HAM and runnable as normal now