Re: [Vala] [ANNOUNCE] Vala 0.10.4 - Compiler for the GObject type system

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Any plans to review all patches and bugs? Any plans to do a hackaton to review them. Afaik there are many patches pending to be reviewed and commited.

Im a bit worried about it because it looks like vala development has stopped for a while. And i would love to have some feedback related to the development lines and roadmaps.

Maybe a testsuite would help?
A hackaton? Who have commit access? Etc..


On 12/03/2011, at 16:22, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:

> We are pleased to announce version 0.10.4 of Vala, a compiler for the
> GObject type system.
> 
> Vala 0.10.4 is now available for download at:
>   http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.10/
> 
> Changes since 0.10.3
> * Bug fixes and binding updates.
> 
> Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming
> language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional
> runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to
> applications and libraries written in C.
> 
> 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
> 
> 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+. It's planned to provide generated bindings for
> the full GNOME Platform at a later stage.
> 
> 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.
> 
> More information about Vala is available at
> 
>        http://www.vala-project.org/
> 
> 
> Jürg Billeter
> 
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