Hello Fellow Vala Fans, A long standing change to generate the GTK+ 3 bindings from GIR, instead of usingthe older GIDL method, has now gone into Vala mainline: https://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/commit/?id=a8e6aff63e5e1502290ba93398314acf2ad45b60 This enables better bindings to be generated more easily and has already resolved twobugs:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791130https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791570 Thanks to Evan Nemerson and Rico Tzschichholz for starting and finishing this work, respectively.
The newly generated bindings are now available for testing in the 0.39.2 preview release and will be available from Vala 0.40. The changes should have minimal impact. They have already passed building many Vala projects that are in Vala CI. See this build:http://paldo.org:8010/builders/vala-staging/builds/356 If a binding has changed, for example a parameter has become nullable, you may needto use conditional pre-parsing in your Vala code:#if VALA_0_40 // New binding call#else // Old binding call#endif If you believe there is an error in a binding please raise a ticket through our bugzilla. The 0.39.2 preview release has already had some external testing. A regression was found andbug report with test case raised. The issue was a side effect of work to reduce the numberof temporary variables used in Vala generated C and has now been fixed. If you are usinginheritance to chain up setting a struct at instantiation time then details are here:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791785 All the best, Al _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
