Oil 0.8.pre6

2020-06-13

This is the home page for version 0.8.pre6 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.pre6.tar.xz 1,183,088
d5bd7d2bded1abaf6a37c69ef29db1bca05033bdf2f3f3239b8ba26323396cbd
oil-0.8.pre6.tar.gz 1,645,418
388eebcf1bf6c8448c032ba0914afcb81652bf78b21880ce86e4f0b08ae5ce86
oil-native-0.8.pre6.tar.xz 192,284
0f07fdd6376c0e65e83bf4e6199d54c6e7022c018f7279af64469845bab0c156

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 Fri Jun 12 20:36:16 PDT 2020