Oil 0.8.pre7

2020-07-07

This is the home page for version 0.8.pre7 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.pre7.tar.xz 1,198,448
a51192640216b6a25d27ffbfc943720cb75b28852d6853ff1ca0cab2ed38696d
oil-0.8.pre7.tar.gz 1,674,660
8a46fd3b3d68847324fef8f4b49b49755cfc42dabcd82414c5527e14374025e2
oil-native-0.8.pre7.tar.xz 195,224
bd00c95ca769594685efb080490360369b82d5f9ff672b33f8fbd8c52df41f21

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 Mon Jul 6 18:30:45 PDT 2020