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: - girparser: + Handle duplicated and unnamed symbols + Add support for "copy_/free_function" metadata for compact classes + Don't count instance-parameter when checking for backwards closure reference [#721] * Bindings: - gst-editing-services-1.0: Fix BaseEffect.set_time_translation_funcs() - gstreamer-audio-1.0: Fix a few binding errors - gstreamer-base-1.0: Fix a few binding errors - gstreamer-video-1.0: Fix a few binding errors - gtk4: Fix content_deserialize_async() - libarchive: Fix a few binding errors - libgsf-1: Fix a few binding errors - libgrss: Fix FeedItem.get_geo_point() parameters ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.55/vala-0.55.91.changes (1.16K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.55/vala-0.55.91.tar.xz (3.77M) sha256sum: a9d695fe12269e8dcc372e053dcf66d69f0290d34ee8b8232809816bb86227bb _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list