| Name : vala
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| Version : 0.7.7
| Vendor : Mandriva
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| Release : 2mdv2010.0
| Date : 2009-10-03 21:25:45
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| Group : Development/Other
| Source RPM : vala-0.7.7-2mdv2010.0.src.rpm
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| Size : 2.75 MB
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| Packager : Colin Guthrie < cguthrie_mandriva_org>
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| Summary : Compiler for the GObject type system
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Description :
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
* Properties
* Signals
* Foreach
* Lambda expressions
* Type inference for local variables
* Non-null types [PARTIAL]
* Exception handling [PLANNED]
* Assisted memory management
* type modules (aka. Plugins)
Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially
GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. Each
to be used library requires a Vala API file at compile-time,
containing the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala
currently comes with experimental bindings for GLib and GTK+. It\'s
planned to provide generated bindings for the full GNOME Platform at a
later stage.
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.
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RPM found in directory: /vol/rzm6/linux-mandriva/official/2010.0/i586/media/main/release |
