Changes
* Add support for static properties.
* Add support for delegate properties.
* Support virtual default handler for signals.
* Add limited support for derived compact classes.
* Add libgdata bindings (Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal).
* Add libusb-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
* Many bug fixes and binding updates.
Vala 0.7.4
Changes
* Add support for array properties.
* Support implicit and explicit GValue casts.
* Add initial support for generic methods.
* Add postgres bindings.
* Many bug fixes and binding updates.
Vala 0.7.3
Changes
* Add initial support for POSIX profile.
* Add --vapi and --gir commandline options.
* Add initial x11, xcb, and cairo-xcb bindings.
* Many bug fixes and binding updates.
Vala 0.7.2
Changes
* Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
* Many bug fixes and binding updates.
Vala 0.7.1
Changes
* Introduce new syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers.
* Add experimental support for fixed-length arrays.
*
Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
* Updates to the GLib, Cairo, GTK+, GStreamer, and POSIX bindings.
* Many bug fixes.
Vala 0.7.0
Changes
* Do not generate header files unless requested by the -H commandline
o option. This requires changes in the build system of Vala projects.
* Support conditional compilation.
Vala 0.6.1
Changes
* Updates to the GLib, Cairo, GTK+, GStreamer, and POSIX bindings.
* Minor bug fixes.
Vala 0.6.0
Changes
* Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
* Add librsvg-2.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
* Add Maemo libosso bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
* Add V4L2 bindings (Matías De la Puente).
* Many bug fixes.
This changes the buildlink3.mk files to use an include guard for the
recursive include. The use of BUILDLINK_DEPTH, BUILDLINK_DEPENDS,
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and BUILDLINK_ORDER is handled by a single new
variable BUILDLINK_TREE. Each buildlink3.mk file adds a pair of
enter/exit marker, which can be used to reconstruct the tree and
to determine first level includes. Avoiding := for large variables
(BUILDLINK_ORDER) speeds up parse time as += has linear complexity.
The include guard reduces system time by avoiding reading files over and
over again. For complex packages this reduces both %user and %sys time to
half of the former time.
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.
