vala 0.36.5

[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:
  - codegen:
    + Initialize temp-variable for fixed-size arrays to zero first [#787152]
    + Actually write declaration for GNodeTraverseFunc wrapper [#786845]
    + Don't transfer ownership of variable if target-type is unknown [#736774]
    + Adjust format-index for printf/scanf-methods which throw errors [#781061]
    + Include glib-object.h for Enums/Structs with type_id
  - vapigen: Mark given source-files as such and force girparser to handle them
  - tests: Fix some syntax issues [#786652]
  - Add .editorconfig file [#786620]

 * Bindings:
  - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.22.19+70b61973
  - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.91.2+80e32390
  - gtk+-4.0: Make Gsk.Texturer.for_*() static factory methods
  - libgdata: Make Authorizer.reauth_* methods virtual [#779229]
  - libxml-2.0: Update Xml.ParserOption [#785585]
  - libxml-2.0: Bind xmlLastElementChild and xmlPreviousElementSibling
  - gobject-2.0: Add required type_id attributes to all ParamSpec subclasses


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.36/vala-0.36.5.changes  (4.03K)

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