I guess the 7.x and 6.x branches will be released in parallel for a while because 7.x branches have some significant changes to Vala? Canol Gokel
________________________________ From: devros <dev...@twotechos.com> To: vala-list@gnome.org Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 7:38:40 PM Subject: Re: [Vala] [ANNOUNCE] Vala 0.6.1 - Compiler for the GObject type system Hi Are we going backwards in releases? I though this should be 7.1? Did I miss something? Srecko On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 18:25 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote: > We are pleased to announce version 0.6.1 of Vala, a compiler for the > GObject type system. > > Vala 0.6.1 is now available for download at: > http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.6/ > > Changes since 0.6.0 > * Updates to the GLib, Cairo, GTK+, GStreamer, and POSIX bindings. > * Minor bug fixes. > > Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming > language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional > runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to > applications and libraries written in C. > > 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 > > 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+. It's planned to provide generated bindings for > the full GNOME Platform at a later stage. > > 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. > > More information about Vala is available at > > http://live.gnome.org/Vala > > > The Vala Team > > Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini > > > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > Vala-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
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