vala 0.43.91

[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:
  - Revert "valadoc: Drop duplicated code to add source files and use
    CodeContext API" and "valadoc: Update API tests" (#748)
  - valadoc: Report warning if resources for doclet could not be copied
  - libvaladoc: Properly support the output of async constructors (#753)
  - girparser: Correctly set array_length_type for delegates returning an array
  - Revert "vala: Don't replace assignments for local variables with non-null
    simple-types" (#755)

 * Bindings:
  - Follow GTK upstream rename to gtk4 and gtk4-unix-print
  - gtk4,gtk4-unix-printer: Update to 3.94.0+02e856f6
  - gtk+-unix-print-*.0: Fix PrintJob.get_page_ranges(),
    Printer.get_hard_margins()
  - atk-1.0: Adjust for upstream revert of Implementor using G_DEFINE_INTERFACE
  - clutter-1.0: Drop deprecated from Actor.pick() (#625)
  - glib-2.0: Add "delegate_target = false" to Log.writer_journald/
    _standard_streams/_default
  - gio-unix-2.0: Add DesktopAppInfo.get_string_list() since 2.60
  - gstreamer: Update from 1.15.1+ git master
  - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.23.91
  - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.43/vala-0.43.91.changes  (2.42K)

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