vala 0.39.5

[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:
  - libvaladoc: Allow @link tags to be split over multiple lines [#646982]
  - libvaladoc: Add support for single line documentation comments [#736483]
  - girparser: Improve instance method detection [#732460]
  - codegen: Add support for abstract/virtual methods and properties in
    compact classes [#741465]
  - vala: Fix parameter type inference of overridden async methods [#792660]
  - codewriter: Don't use string.replace() to apply header_to_override [#731322]

 * Bindings:
  - gio-unix-2.0: Update to 2.55.1
  - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.93.0+60d3378d
  - libwnck-3.0: Update to 3.24.1
  - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.19.5
  - webkit2gtk-web-extension-4.0: Fix DOM.EventTarget interface


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.5.changes  (3.75K)

Download
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