vala 0.44.9

[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:
    + Directly use "memmove()" while g_memmove() is deprecated
    + Accept children after generating type specific declarations
    + Preserve full access to delegate variables and its target/destroy cvalues
    + Initialize delegate temp-var which is assigned by property getter
    + Silence warning about copying if delegate doesn't carry its target
    + Use gtype-boxed API for structs with "g_boxed_free" attribute [#863]
  - ccode: Implicitly register declaration for added CCodeFunction
  - vala:
    + Report dedicated error message for params-array parameter mismatch
    + Output "params" qualifier of parameters
    + Allow to override virtual interface implementations [#852]
    + Fix compatible/disposable check between structs and their subtypes
    + Don't issue a warning for non-public struct fields in bindings
    + Trust "value_owned" when writing property getter and regenerate
      GIDL/GIR-based bindings fix getter ownership of struct properties
  - girparser: Add required copy/free attributes for gtype-boxed structs
    and regenerate GIR-based bindings to pick up copy/free attributes [#863]
  - valadoc: Explicitly pass --pkg libgvc
  - docs: Mention requirement of autoconf-archive as build-dependency
  - vapi: Perform syntax and semantic check for all bindings on "make check"

 * Bindings:
  - gio-unix-2.0: Fix DesktopAppInfo.get_string(), UnixFDMessage.steal_fds()
  - gobject-2.0: Some cherry-picking from GIR generated binding
  - gtk+-3.0: Ownership mismatch of ColorButton.rgba property-accessor [#844]
  - gtk4: Update to 3.96.0+bcea9652
  - gtk4: Constructors of Gtk.MediaFile needs to be static functions
  - avahi-client: Fix "use of possibly unassigned parameter" warnings
  - glib-2.0: Set default_value attribute for GLib.pointer
  - gnutls: Fix "use of possibly unassigned parameter" warnings
  - tokyocabinet: Fix deprecation warnings
  - xcb: Fix "missing return statement at end of subroutine body" errors


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.44/vala-0.44.9.changes  (3.58K)

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