vala 0.39.92

[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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 * Highlights
  - Add support for feature test macros [#793444]
    e.g. [CCode (feature_test_macro = "_GNU_SOURCE")]

 * Various bug fixes:
  - codegen:
    + Use pointers when accessing constant multi-dimensional arrays [#604371]
    + Add valid support for const multi-dimensional arrays [#604371]
    + Don't append fixed-length of array fields in initializers
    + Add source_reference to some store_local/_field() calls
  - Properly handle array-initializers inside struct-initializers [#622178]
  - The rank of an array-initializer should match the target's rank [#744923]
  - Make SemanticAnalyzer.check_arguments() independent of context
  - Check with same rules for dbus compatibility as in GBusModule [#793859]
  - Fix recursive declaration in generic base type [#688732]
  - Prevent WITH_CGRAPH conditional having an impact on generated sources
  - Update manual from wiki.gnome.org

 * Bindings:
  - glib-2.0, posix: Add feature test macro _GNU_SOURCE for pow10(3),
    pow10f(3), exp10(3) and exp10f(3) [#614788]
  - gstreamer-1.0: Update from 1.13.1+ git master
  - linux: Add dup3 [#729803]
  - linux: Add feature_test_macros to non-POSIX file control constants and dup3
  - posix: Fix sig*set and sigprocmask parameters to be out/ref [#727425]
  - posix: Add feature_test_macro _GNU_SOURCE to sighandler_t [#761975]
  - libgnome-menu-3.0: Add deps file
  - Update GIR-based bindings


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.92.changes  (4.07K)

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