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Oils 0.24.0

This is the home page for version 0.24.0 of Oils, a Unix shell. To use it,

1. Download a source tarball.
2. Build it and do a "smoke test", as described in INSTALL.

These steps take 30 to 60 seconds on most machines. After installation, see Getting Started.

Download

The Oils Deployments wiki page has other ways of getting Oils. These versions may not be up-to-date.

Documentation

• Published Docs - these are ready to read
• All Docs (in progress)
  • The Oils Reference
• Github Wiki for oilshell/oil

Packaging

Summary of Oils Packaging Guidelines:

• The oils-for-unix tarball is the fast shell in C++, completed in 2024. The distro package should be called oils-for-unix.
• The oil tarball is the slow reference interpreter based on CPython.
  • Don't rename old distro packages. They can remain oil.
  • It's not worth packaging oil in new distros. It may be removed at some point.
• The project is now called Oils, or Oils for Unix. There is no more oil!

What's New

• Details are in the raw git change log. Not all changes affect the release tarball.
• I sometimes write a release announcement with a high-level description of changes.

Links

• The quality page shows test results, metrics, and benchmarks.