It's a bit late for announcing this but I've been accepted for Summer of Code again this year, I'll be working on interoperability between git and mercurial, so you can use the nice UI of mercurial with the ever growing number of projects moving to git (I'm thinking of gnome here).

I'll try to resend a new version of my Vala patch to gdb later this week.

As bug 542920 has been fixed, I've released a new version of the Vala plugin for anjuta.
Highlights for this release :

* Now compiles without patching anything, you'll need vala 0.5.7 and at least version 2.24 of anjuta.
* Reparse when a file is saved.
* Various bug fixes.

You can get it from here. I hope it'll be included in anjuta-extras for 2.26.

On other news, I've sent my gdb patch, you can follow the thread here(my latest mail is here).

Hi,

I've just uploaded my latest patch to add Vala support to gdb.
It works mostly ok, and I'd like more feedback on it.
You can get it from here. (apply it against gdb 6.8 )

Summer of code is almost over, and I think I'm on track for completing my project.

Now, more about what I've been doing lately :

The next step in my project is Vala debugging support for Anjuta. I tried to work directly on gdb so that others can use it even if not using anjuta. Here are the results as a small demo video.

So what do you think of this? Of course you can try it yourself : get the patch from here, and apply it on gdb 6.8.

There are still some things to clean, some things to add, but I think it's useable now. the main thing to add is printing of values (now it uses the C), and the main thing to add is accessing private fields directly (i.e. obj.privfield instead of obj.priv.privfield).

P.S: I'll try to prepare a video using Anjuta.