vala 0.44.1

[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:
  - ccodegen:
    + Use unsigned default value for flags-enum
    + Use guint to represent flags-enum in custom GMarshalFunc
  - Move disconnect error from signal-module to semantic-analyzer pass
  - Mark defined constructors of abstract classes as protected
  - parser: Implicit creation method of abstract classes must be protected
  - vala: Allow assignment of 0U to enum types
  - libvaladoc: Don't try to create a Content.ListItem when there is none

 * Bindings:
  - gio-2.0: SocketAddress.from_native() is a factory method not a constructor
  - glib-2.0: Add string.validate_len() since 2.60
  - gstreamer: Update from 1.15.2+ git master
  - gtk4: Update to 3.94.0+f14d998c
  - libgvc: Some additions and ownership/return-type fixes
  - vte-2.90: Mark as deprecated, it was replaced by vte-2.91
  - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.44/vala-0.44.1.changes  (1.53K)

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