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: - codegen: Support renamed signals [#731547] - Optimize (de)serialization of arrays with type-signature "ay" [#772426] - codegen: Try to use a more unique internal define for properties [#787436] - vala: Update list of used attributes - method: Include ownership transfer classifier for return-type mismatch * Bindings: - glib-2.0: Bind g_convert_with_fallback() and g_convert_with_iconv() - gio-2.0: Add DBusConnection 'closed' signal as 'on_closed' [#684358] - gstreamer-1.0, gio-2.0: Various fixes - gnutls: Fix free_function ccode-attribute of Certificate [#788181] - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.22.24 - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.18 ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.36/vala-0.36.6.changes (1.65K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.36/vala-0.36.6.tar.xz (2.72M) sha256sum: e0cc036d00db726c05192f3b51bd8acc07966fbc814f8aa84157c61ee0370215 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list
