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.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
D-Bus server support has been rewritten to directly use libdbus. Avoiding dbus-glib marshalling helps Vala to support complex D-Bus types more easily. All Vala structs will now be registered with GBoxed. Many critical warnings and crashes on invalid code have been fixed and replaced by better understandable error messages. Private class fields and class destructors are now supported. The vala-gen-project has been dropped from the package, and is now part of Vala Toys for gEdit. Many bugs have been fixed.
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12-17-2008
