And the win32 installer: http://code.google.com/p/valide/downloads/detail?name=vala-0.5.6.exe
2009/1/18 Yu Feng <[email protected]> > Nice job! > > I notice all 'weak' return values in bindings are now replaced with > 'unowned'. > > Has the difference between these two been documented anywhere yet? > > Regards, > > Yu > On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:50 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote: > > We are pleased to announce version 0.5.6 of Vala, a compiler for the > > GObject type system. > > > > Vala 0.5.6 is now available for download at: > > http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.5/ > > > > Changes since 0.5.5 > > * Do not require libgee for custom indexer access. > > * Add Log.FILE, Log.LINE, and Log.METHOD constants. > > * Various improvements to the .gir reader. > > * Add Lua bindings (pancake and Phil Housley). > > * Add MySQL bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen). > > * Add partial POSIX bindings. > > * Many bug fixes. > > > > Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming > > language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional > > runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to > > applications and libraries written in C. > > > > 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 > > > > 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+. It's planned to provide generated bindings > for > > the full GNOME Platform at a later stage. > > > > 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. > > > > More information about Vala is available at > > > > http://live.gnome.org/Vala > > > > > > The Vala Team > > > > Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Vala-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > -- Nicolas Joseph Responsable de la rubrique GTK+ de developpez.com / In charge of the GTK+ section on developpez.com http://nicolasj.developpez.com
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