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Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
http://www.oilshell.org/
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Easier installation from binaries #960

Open guai opened 3 years ago

guai commented 3 years ago

Hi I've tried to build oil/osh from sources inside a wsl ubuntu. It gave me a lot of warnings. So I'm not sure if everything went ok. It would be nice to just use apt/yum/rpm/etc instead. And also empty releases here on github confused me at first.

I'm not a linux pro. That's why I went looking for a more sane shell in the first place.

andychu commented 3 years ago

There are some binaries/repositories here, although I'm not sure which ones are up to date:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Oil-Deployments

Warnings are OK. Our philosophy on warnings matches sqlite :)

https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org/msg98151.html

Oil will give you better error messages, which may help you learn shell and Linux. But it's early and it doesn't have the same ecosystem that other shells have.

Thanks for the feedback!

guai commented 3 years ago

I think the info about available binaries better be placed in the readme somewhere at the top