Fedora 18 Update: vala-0.17.4-1.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-12292
2012-08-20 19:45:09
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Name        : vala
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.17.4
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://live.gnome.org/Vala
Summary     : A modern programming language for GNOME
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.

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Update Information:

- Warn when accessing static members with an instance reference.
- Recompute length when casting between array types.
- Support [GenericAccessors] attribute for interfaces.
- Deprecate implicit .begin for async methods.
- Drop Dova profile.
- Drop POSIX profile.
- Bug fixes and binding updates.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #840766 - vala-0.17.4 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840766
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update vala' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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