vala 0.48.3

[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:
    + Append initializer for "_*_size_" of array field in internal struct
    + Avoid critical trying to serialize an unsupported type to Variant [#952]
    + Don't free value if property setter takes ownership [#953]
    + Correct field declaration for captured inline-allocated array [#954]
    + Include "glib.h" for G_BEGIN_DECLS/G_END_DECLS usage
    + Correctly handle transformation of translated string-literal constants
    + Don't pass CCodeCastExpression to NULL-aware free macro [#953]
  - vala:
    + Support struct initializer list in non-constant array [#949]
    + Handle unlock() statement in CodeWriter
    + Handle all ctors and dtors in CodeWriter
    + Consider boolean types are compatible with each other
    + Parse standalone integer/real literals as expression statement [#961]
    + Warn about usage of override to implement abstract interface methods

 * Bindings:
  - gio-2.0: Update to 2.65.0~a136776e
  - gstreamer: Update from 1.17.0+ git master
  - gtk4: Update to 3.98.2+11495027


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.48/vala-0.48.3.changes  (3.18K)

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