Re: [Vala] [Announcement] Vala will use GTask for async code instead of GSimpleAsyncResult if --target-glib=2.36 or greater is selected

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hi all,

I just wanted to quickly say thanks to everyone involved with this. It 
will cut down the amount of warnings generated when compiling Geary by 
a huge amount!

//Mike

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk> 
wrote:
> A patch to Vala's master development branch was made this weekend. 
> The patch changes the C code generated from Vala's async code. Future 
> versions of Vala (0.36 and above) will use GLib's GTask instead of 
> GSimpleAsyncResult when --target-glib=2.36 or greater is selected. 
> Vala 0.36 is expected with GNOME 3.24 in March 2017. The patch is:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/commit/?id=14ca2e09f9021e681947fa3f1fb5c1a6974059ae
>
> Thanks to Carlos Garnacho for the main work on the patch, to Ben 
> Iofel for fixing cancelled tasks and to everyone else who tested and 
> fed back on the patch. To see more details of this example of 
> collaborative working in the Vala community:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763345
>
> If you use async code and want to test your project then download and 
> build Vala from git master. Instructions are available here:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Genie/Developing#Building_valac_from_Source
>
> If your testing uncovers a bug then feedback through bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=vala
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