Oils Packaging Guidelines

• Latest release: https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/
• Please call the package oils-for-unix
  • There is no more "oil". The project is called Oils, or "Oils for Unix"
  • Reasons for the Big Renaming to Oils, OSH, and YSH (March 2023)
• Invoking ./install _bin/cxx-opt-sh/oils-for-unix at the root of source tree will install the executable oils-for-unix.
• It will also install symlinks osh and ysh to that executable, in the style of busybox.
  • osh is very compatible with POSIX sh and bash, while ysh flips some switches to make it a coherent new language.
• Description: Oils is a Unix shell with JSON-compatible structured data. It's our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime.
• Longer Description:
  • bin/osh runs POSIX shell scripts and many bash scripts. bin/ysh is an improved shell language.

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