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Oil Version 0.4.alpha1

What's New

• The Release announcement has a high-level summary of changes.
• Details are in the raw git change log. Some of these changes may not affect the release tarball (e.g. tool changes).

Docs For End Users

• INSTALL. How to install OSH. This text file is also at the root of the tarball.
• OSH Quick Reference, with Examples (in progress). This document underlies the OSH help builtin. It also gives a rough overview of what features OSH implements.

Docs For Developers

• Github Wiki for oilshell/oil

Tests Results

• Spec Tests. Test OSH behavior against that of existing shells.
• Wild Tests. Parsing and translating thousands of shell scripts with OSH.
• Unit Tests. Python unit test results.
• Gold Tests. Comparisons against bash (using implicit assertions, no golden output.)
• osh2oil Tests. Test the conversion of OSH to Oil.

Benchmarks and Metrics

• OSH Parser Performance. How fast does OSH parse compared to other shells?
• OSH Runtime. How fast does OSH run compared to other shells?
• Virtual Memory Baseline. How much memory to shells use at startup?
• OHeap. Metrics for a possible AST encoding format.
• Line Counts. How much code is in Oil?