13 May 01:38
[ANNOUNCE] Vala 0.3.2 - Compiler for the GObject type system
From: Jürg Billeter <j <at> bitron.ch>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Vala 0.3.2 - Compiler for the GObject type system
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnome.announce
Date: 2008-05-12 23:41:12 GMT
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Vala 0.3.2 - Compiler for the GObject type system
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnome.announce
Date: 2008-05-12 23:41:12 GMT
We are pleased to announce version 0.3.2 of Vala, a compiler for the GObject type system. Vala 0.3.2 is now available for download at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.3/ Changes since 0.3.1 * Add support for class constructors, class fields, and class methods. * Various improvements to methods in D-Bus services. * Add support for properties and signals in D-Bus services (Yu Feng) * Add Time API to GLib bindings. * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley) * Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings. * Many bug fixes. 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. It's also planned to generate GIDL files when gobject- introspection is ready. 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(Continue reading)
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