Re: [ANN] Gash 0.1 released

[ng0@n0.is]

Hi,

congrats. Looks like a nice project.

And packaging it with no struggle (so far) - I'm about
to push a package to pkgsrc-wip.
Timothy Sample transcribed 2.5K bytes:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am very pleased to announce that Gash version 0.1 has been released.
> This is the very first release, but it represents 569 commits from three
> authors over the course of three years.
> 
> About
> =====
> 
> Gash is a POSIX-compatible shell written in Guile Scheme.  It provides
> both the shell interface, as well as a Guile library for parsing shell
> scripts.  Gash is designed to bootstrap Bash as part of the Guix
> bootstrap process.  We are planning to develop Gash into a
> general-purpose shell and tool for building interfaces between Scheme
> and the shell.
> 
> Download
> ========
> 
> You can download Gash 0.1 from
> 
>   http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/gash/gash-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> and verify its authenticity with its signature file
> 
>   http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/gash/gash-0.1.tar.gz.sig
> 
> If you are running Guix, Gash 0.1 is available as a package as of commit
> 2ccc9d692aed72dab614ab684341ca76466eafdf.
> 
> Features
> ========
> 
> Features of the shell
> 
>   • Sophisticated enough to be used to build Bash.
>   • Has a nice colorized prompt.
>   • Includes all of the POSIX-specified “special” built-ins except for
>     ‘times’.
>   • Includes about half of the POSIX-specified “regular” built-ins
>     (see ‘gash/built-ins.scm’ for details).
> 
> Features of the programming interface
> 
>   • Parses Shell scripts into an AST.
>   • Provides a rudimentary interface for writing Shell-like Scheme
>     scripts.
> 
> What’s next?
> ============
> 
> Gash is ready to replace the Bash bootstrap binary in the Guix bootstrap
> process.  I will do this shortly on the ‘core-updates’ branch.
> 
> There are a handful of missing features from POSIX that need to be
> implemented.
> 
> A shell compiler for Guile along with a language specification.
> 
> The release of a sibling project which contains Scheme versions of the
> other utilities (“coreutils&co”) used in the Guix bootstrap process.
> (The code for this is functional, but it needs a fair bit of polish.)
> 
> Contributing
> ============
> 
> The primary Git repository is available on Savannah.  It can be cloned
> from <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gash.git> and browsed on the Web
> at <https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/gash.git>.
> 
> If you would like to help out with this project, please get in touch at
> <gash-devel@nongnu.org>.  This is also where you can submit bugs!
> 
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has helped out so far!
> 
> 
> -- Tim
>