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 improvements and bug fixes: - vala: + Support static methods in error-domains [#829] + Fix mixup of target_glib_major/minor in set_target_glib_version() [#825] + Implicit GValue cast requires GOBJECT profile + NoAccessorMethod checks require GOBJECT profile + 'construct' is not supported in POSIX profile - codegen: + Use G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST for comparisons with interfaces + Append line-break after G_DEFINE_AUTOPTR_CLEANUP_FUNC + Move private type-struct to type-definition section + Include required type-definition when casting from generic pointer [#828] - girparser: Handle "function-macro" by skipping them [gi#159] - valadoc: Install icons and doclets to API dependent folders * Bindings: - glib-2.0: Add new symbols and deprecations from 2.62 - glib-2.0: Add MappedFile.from_fd constructor [#824] - gstreamer: Update from 1.17.0+ git master - posix: Fix return-value of mknod() and c-include for tcgetsid() - posix: Add *at() calls and related constants [#823] - webkit2gtk-4.0: Fix WebContext.initialize_notification_permissions() - x11: Fix return type of XInternAtoms and XGetAtomNames bindings - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.45/vala-0.45.90.changes (3.36K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.45/vala-0.45.90.tar.xz (3.20M) sha256sum: 2b42b517f93e3a143251591068147bfecccbc220df22d6f439f7313846606a12 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list