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 bug fixes: - Fix GDestroyNotify of delegate parameters in delegate declaration [#639059] - Avoid critical when connecting dynamic signals - compiler: Prefix headers for set_cheader_override() if includedir is given [#793299] - Don't warn about unused internal methods which are meant to be visible on DBus [#593902] - libvaladoc: Prevent WITH_CGRAPH conditional having an impact on generated sources * Bindings: - gio-2.0: Cherry-pick some DBusProxy fixes from 0.40 - gstreamer-1.0: Update from 1.13+ git master - gdk-3.0,gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.22.27 ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.38/vala-0.38.8.changes (1.29K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.38/vala-0.38.8.tar.xz (3.25M) sha256sum: 2fa746b51cd66e43577d1da06a80b708c2875cadaafee77e9700ea35cf23882c _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list