vala 0.43.92

[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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 * Various improvements and bug fixes:
  - codegen:
    + Allow to associate CCodeFile to actual SourceFile
    + Only emit declaration of *_register_type if needed
    + Add get_variable_array_length_cname() and use as possible
    + Respect array_length_cname attribute for global fields
    + Replace gvaluecollector_h_needed with dedidated add_include() calls
    + Respect finish[_vfunc]_name attributes defined in vala sources
    + Include "glib-object.h" for typeof expression
  - vala:
    + Correctly perform compatibility check of array length-type [#607]
    + Don't ignore qualified parent when inferring type of enum member [#666035]
  - girwriter:
    + Support transfer-ownership="container" for arrays
    + Always use get_gir_name() for TypeSymbols
  - testrunner: Add support for Genie source files (.gs)
  - tests: Add some Genie tests to increase coverage
  - genie: Allow main function "init" to return integer as exit status [#402]

 * Bindings:
  - gobject-2.0: Add SignalHandler.disconnect_by_data()
  - poppler-glib: Update to 0.74
  - gtk4: Update to 3.94.0+b4ae491b
  - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.43/vala-0.43.92.changes  (2.75K)

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