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 - valac: Always use the given "pkg-config" and respect PKG_CONFIG envar - compiler: Prefix headers for set_cheader_override() if includedir is given [#793299] - vala: Issue a warning on DBus methods which are not throwing an Error - Don't warn about unused internal methods which are meant to be visible on DBus [#593902] - Don't install vapicheck [#793370] * Bindings: - glib-2.0: Add KeyFile.get_locale_for_key() - gstreamer-1.0: Update from 1.13+ git master - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.93.0+d07b14f4 - purple: Update to 2.12.0 - Update GIR-based bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.91.changes (2.98K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.91.tar.xz (3.17M) sha256sum: 6e10a007c55ccf782cbb39a47779f79e2aa0e2c44e797f8f5517b03af76166c4 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list