Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Bos 0.1.0

[Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>]

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Looks very nice! Do you think this would be a good route towards getting
ocamlbuild working seamlessly on windows?

martin

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to announce the first release of bos:
>
> ```
> Bos provides support for basic and robust interaction with the operating
> system in OCaml. It has functions to access the process environment, parse
> command line arguments, interact with the file system and run command line
> programs.
>
> Bos works equally well on POSIX and Windows operating systems.
>
> Bos depends on Rresult, Astring, Fmt, Fpath, Logs and the OCaml Unix
> library.
> It is distributed under the ISC license.
> ```
>
> Homepage: http://erratique.ch/software/bos
> API docs: http://erratique.ch/software/bos/doc/
>
> Bos can be seen as improved Sys module for programs and scripts that have
> light OS interaction requirements. Inspired by the excellent work of scsh
> [0], it seems this path has been pursued more than once in OCaml for
> example with cash [1] or shcaml [2].
>
> Bos however has a slightly different take on this. It does not try to
> recover the shell's terseness or processing model but rather tries to
> overcome the shell's brittleness in face of errors, error reporting and
> insane quoting conventions. The difference between a script and a program
> is an artificial one and bos tries to encourage you to write programs that
> do not fail obscurely and evolve gracefully from a quick, small one (a.k.a
> "script") to a complex one (a.k.a. "program") while keeping good usability
> for the end user who is the one who eventually gets processing failures in
> the face.
>
> This first version number is intentionally low, as I don't see bos as
> fully finished at the moment. Some interfaces could be tweaked and other
> added in the future (feedback and discussion on the issue tracker is
> welcome). I did however already write a few programs/scripts that make use
> of most of the features provided by the library, so the low number should
> not be interpreted as "alpha" quality software. What is provided here
> should work as described and if it doesn't, scream on the issue tracker.
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel
>
>
> [0] https://scsh.net/
> [1] http://pauillac.inria.fr/cash/
> [2] http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~jesse/code/shcaml/
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