vala 0.36.16

[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 improvements and bug fixes:
  - codewriter: Prepend "yield" if is_yield_expression is set on
    MethodCall and ObjectCreationExpression
  - codegen: Fix typo in is_pure_ccode_expression() [#673]
  - gobject-introspection: Fix use after free in scanner [#674]
  - vala: Check if ArrayType supports its given element-type in analyzer pass
  - valadoc: Fix some string escaping which gettext complains about
  - girparser: Actually resolve type-arguments to be able to box them if needed
  - codegen: Free errors after returning them on GDBusMethodInvocation [#657]
  - codegen: Add source_reference to unsupported floating reference error
  - vala: Allow read-only properties
  - manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org

 * Bindings:
  - Update GIDL-based bindings to fix unsupported type-arguments
  - glib-2.0: Add Array.remove*() wrapper to avoid leaking generic elements
  - glib-2.0: Add return-type of Queue.remove*(), add HashTable.foreach_steal()
  - glib-2.0: Set DateTime.now () to use local time zone as the default
  - gstreamer: Cherry-pick some fixes from 0.40
  - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.24.0
  - libxml-2.0: Add missing context parameter in OutputWriteCallback
  - pango: Fix ownership of LayoutIter.get_line()
  - x11: Add binding for XCreateSimpleWindow


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.36/vala-0.36.16.changes  (2.10K)

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