About vala ========== valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code.
The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features as the following: Interfaces, Properties, Signals, Foreach, Lambda expressions, Type inference for local variables, Generics, Non-null types, Assisted memory management, Exception handling, Type modules (Plugins) Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All that is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes with bindings for GLib and GTK+ and many others from the GNOME Platform. Using classes and methods written in Vala from an application written in C is not difficult. The Vala library only has to install the generated header files and C applications may then access the GObject- based API of the Vala library as usual. It should also be easily possible to write a bindings generator for access to Vala libraries from applications written in e.g. C# as the Vala parser is written as a library, so that all compile-time information is available when generating a binding. News ==== * Various improvements and bug fixes: - Mark defined constructors of abstract classes as protected - codegen: + Use guint to represent flags-enum in custom GMarshalFunc + Move disconnect error from signal-module to semantic-analyzer pass + Use unsigned default value for flags-enum + Always assign original variable when consuming instance to destroy [#781] + Resolve generics in sizeof-expression of parameter initializer + Move implicit GValue cast for comparison to BinaryExpression [#585063] - girparser: Create correct output in get_default_lower_case_suffix() [#778] - parser: Improve source_reference of expressions and statements - vala: Variadic parameters are not supported for async methods - vala: Allow assignment of 0U to enum types - vala: Use global CodeContext to retrieve root_symbol - libvaladoc: + Don't try to create a Content.ListItem when there is none + Handle missing Content.List.Bullet.ORDERED in switch + Handle missing Run.Style.NONE in switch * Bindings: - libarchive: Fix Archive.[set_]mode/perm() and add Archive.FileMode - libgvc: Some additions and ownership/return-type fixes - glib-2.0: Don't annotate dedicated GLib.assert_*() with [Assert] [#769] - pango: Fix StringBuilder parameter of scan_word() - gobject-introspection-1.0: Fix TypeInfo and TypeTag method references [#778] - gstreamer-1.0: Fix TypeFind and TypeFindFactory method references [#778] ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.42/vala-0.42.7.changes (3.77K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.42/vala-0.42.7.tar.xz (3.21M) sha256sum: 03dd5226e373eb1f0a602411f87e5c64213e2791139ce23f0fa8d0dbf4d23309 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list