Oil 0.8.pre5

2020-05-21

This is the home page for version 0.8.pre5 of Oil, a Unix shell. To use it,

  1. Download a source tarball.
  2. Build and install it, as described in INSTALL.

These steps take 30 to 60 seconds on most machines. After that, you can assemble an oshrc file, which is described in the manual.

Test results, metrics, and benchmarks are shown below.

Download

File / SHA256 checksum Size
oil-0.8.pre5.tar.xz 1,169,648
2b050b06204b07cb1a821b2f046b413f1eb4ec1c24f58d632bcbcbbd1435ce58
oil-0.8.pre5.tar.gz 1,624,026
d44eace24ccda26e206239cafe7300541d0fb299c862317cd8b7ff0842ef940a
oil-native-0.8.pre5.tar.xz 173,336
a1cd3490159ca042c1a683bd24292ad60c716eb9ebbfd7000e30a6178c053489

Note: oil-native is a preview release, not a working shell.

What's New

Documentation

Oil has three major sources of docs:

Tests

Main Test Suites

Other Suites

Manual Tests

Benchmarks

Metrics

Source Code

These files may help you understand how Oil is implemented, i.e. with domain-specific languages and code generation.

Also see the oilshell/oil repository.

OPy Tests

The OPy compiler is used to compile Oil to bytecode, but isn't itself part of the release.

Tree-shaking:


Generated on Thu May 21 12:33:04 PDT 2020