[Vala] Signal questions, Compilation problem

["Daniel Borgmann" <daniel borgmann gmail com>]

Hello!

First let me tell you that I'm very excited about Vala and what it
potentially could mean for GNOME development. I was surprised that I
hadn't heard of it before, despite the project being very usable
already. Currently I am trying to port my C# application to Vala
(Scratchpad, a text editor) and have a few questions.

1) I couldn't find the "changed" signal for a GtkEntry and it seems
like all the signals from the Editable interface are missing, is that
right? Was that just an oversight or is there a problem with interface
signals? Also, is there no way to override a signal handler? At least
I couldn't find any signal handlers in the vapi files.

2) I get these errors trying to compile Vala from SVN:
valaintegerliteral.vala:75.15-75.15: error: Relational operation:
Cannot convert from `int' to `int64'
valaintegerliteral.vala:78.21-78.21: error: Relational operation:
Cannot convert from `int' to `int64'

I get the feeling that this might be an odd case of bootstrapping
problem, where my installed version of Vala (0.3) isn't able to
compile its newer self. What would I be supposed to do in such a case?
:-)


Thanks,

Daniel