vala 0.47.91

[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:
  - vala:
    + Fix base-access check for compact classes (2)
    + Don't ignore errors in Parameter and acknowledge them further
    + Properly set CodeNode.error when reporting an error
  - girparser: Report a warning for conflicting class and instance methods
  - testrunner: Invalid tests and therefore expected failures must return 1
  - manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org

 * Bindings:
  - Add harfbuzz-gobject binding [#909]
  - gstreamer: Update from 1.17.0+ git master
  - gtk+-*.0,gtk4: Fix iter parameter of TextIter.order() [#908]
  - gtk4: Update to 3.98.0+410dbdf6
  - pango: Update and add harfbuzz-gobject as dependency
  - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.27.90


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.47/vala-0.47.91.changes  (1.24K)

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