vala 0.39.3

[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:
  - Fix chain-up regression with real non-null struct parameters [#791785]
  - Release taken references to CodeContext after using it [#712694] and keep
    custom invocations of parse_file() possible [#791936]
  - parser: Accept comma-separated list in case-statements of switchs [#614015]

 * Bindings:
  - Remove bindings which are shipped upstream for some years
    + gedit 3 [#776021], libgnome-keyring [#776022],
      gtksourceview-3.0 [#776023], libgdata [#776024], librsvg-2.0 [#776025]
  - glib-2.0: Add GLib.OPTION_REMAINING and GLib.OptionFlags.NONE
  - gstreamer-1.0: Update from 1.13+ git master
  - gtk+-2.0: Mark MessageDialog constructor parameter, message_format, as
    nullable [#791570]
  - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.93.0+6aeae2c8
  - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.19.3


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.3.changes  (3.35K)

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