vala 0.36.1

[Rico Tzschichholz <install-module master gnome org>]

About vala
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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
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 * Various bug fixes:
  - Always consider a method compatible with itself [#773135]
  - Perform arguments-check against actual .end() method-signature [#684208]
  - Slightly improve lamdba-expression error on target-type mismatch
  - Fix delegate initializer for instance fields [#683925]
  - Don't leak target-reference when casting/assigning owned delegates [#780426]

 * GIR parser and writer:
  - girparser: Add destroy argument for metadata [#750838]
  - vapigen: Add --nostdpkg option like in valac

 * Bindings:
  - gstreamer-1.0: Fix Pad.set_*_function() bindings [#750838]
  - glib-2.0: Add missing version macro and constants,
      unichar.to_string doesn't return null
  - gtk+-2.0,gtk+-3.0: Mark "intersection" param of Widget.intersect() as out
  - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.90.0


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.36/vala-0.36.1.changes  (1.67K)

Download
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