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: - Enforce name-length >= 3 for structs using GType [#764041] - Report error for missing type-parameter on enclosing type [#587905] - Discover invalid member access to instance field [#790903] - Improve error output of mismatching overriding methods - vala: Don't transform an explicit "null" into valid format-string [#791215] - codegen: Don't create null-safe destroy-wrapper for GenericType [#791283] - Improve error message for missing type-parameter on enclosing type [#587905] * GIR parser: - Allow change of parameter names - Handle metadata for fields inside a transparent union - Accept setters with boolean return-type as valid property-accessor - Don't mark simple-type out-parameters with '?' as nullable * Valadoc - Acknowledge possible properties in structs [#784705] - Fix fatal typo in GtkdocRenderer.visit_symbol_link() [#790266] - libvaladoc: Actually resolve "percnt;" to '%' * Bindings: - gobject-2.0: Add some missing symbols - gstreamer-1.0: Bind GST_DEBUG_BIN_TO_DOT_FILE/*_WITH_TS [#785215] - gstreamer-1.0: Update from 1.13+ git master - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.22.26+9ce824d3 - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.19.2 - glib-2.0: Fix potential null pointer dereference in string.joinv() [#791257] - gobject-2.0: Add missing GType constants for fundamentals [#791023] ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.38/vala-0.38.4.changes (4.74K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.38/vala-0.38.4.tar.xz (3.24M) sha256sum: 2cb33a63bd17737e72f5f4f9ca4109f398500ee1f17a01ff4ef94139b07ae5e9 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list