Oil 0.8.pre8

2020-07-18

This is the home page for version 0.8.pre8 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.pre8.tar.xz 1,199,924
b6dd6f1da0dcabdd5e90d2c7c0069be5ee67635259fc4135834a8aa0cf50a696
oil-0.8.pre8.tar.gz 1,677,122
28d04a9111f7a28a663157236746b893b26f7878c4646f10bf6415b05e6907fd
oil-native-0.8.pre8.tar.xz 199,844
9072cdda92acc23087aeb2fc75d863ed6a08b877405c4539f327e50efabe6340

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 Sat Jul 18 02:28:24 PDT 2020