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 ==== * Regression and bug fixes: - vala: Run FlowAnalyzer on all given source-files [#843] - valadoc: Explicitly pass --pkg libvala@PACKAGE_SUFFIX@ as for doclets/tests * Bindings: - gio-unix-2.0: Add UnixMountEntry.get_root_path() since 2.60 - gstreamer: Update from 1.17.0+ git master - gtk4: Update to 3.96.0+97231ca2 - gtk+-3.0: Ownership mismatch of ColorButton.rgba property-accessor [#844] - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.46/vala-0.46.1.changes (1.09K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.46/vala-0.46.1.tar.xz (3.21M) sha256sum: 14e579ab85739097849570b642cf09a91ed27765313a5ca6f94d474b199c9f81 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list
