- Name: vala
- Version: 0.6.1
- Release: 1mdv2009.1
- Epoch:
- Group: Development/Other
- License: LGPLv2+ and BSD
- Url: http://live.gnome.org/Vala
- Summary: Compiler for the GObject type system
- Architecture: i586
- Size: 1602380
- Distribution: Mandriva Linux
- Vendor: Mandriva
- Packager: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@mandriva.com>
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.
- BuildArch:
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- Cookie: n2.mandriva.com 1239719485
- Buildhost: n2.mandriva.com
Generated packages:
- libvala-devel-0.6.1-1mdv2009.1.i586
- libvala0-0.6.1-1mdv2009.1.i586
- vala-0.6.1-1mdv2009.1.i586
- vala-debug-0.6.1-1mdv2009.1.i586
- lib64vala-devel-0.6.1-1mdv2009.1.x86_64
- lib64vala0-0.6.1-1mdv2009.1.x86_64
- vala-0.6.1-1mdv2009.1.x86_64
- vala-debug-0.6.1-1mdv2009.1.x86_64
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