2024-08-30 · CIEL 0.2: simpler installation, more utilities

[vindarel]

Those are the changes since the beginning of the year.

Thanks to everyone who sent pull requests for code and documentation or who sent feedback on GitHub!

CIEL is still alpha software, but it is used daily and it is used in production©.

CIEL is Common Lisp, batteries included.
It comes as a script runner (fast startup, built-in libraries) but also as a Lisp library and a core image.

Changelog

Simpler installation

Installing CIEL should be easier for everyone, in particular for our friends on MacOS.

• we replaced Moira, relying on osicat (and needing to compile on Unix), by moira/light (contributed upstream).
• we replaced FOF by our lightweight fork file-finder.
  • doesn't rely on magicffi and thus libmagic nor on osicat
  • removed heavy and not required dependencies
  • added features: added file predicates for the search, ignore hidden files and typical directories…
  • removed file attributes: user, group, stats, permissions (might be added back).
• we removed the dependency on nodgui and we have yet to test its new nodgui-lite system.

More utilities

• added: progressons, a simple progress bar.
• added: cl-ftp
• added: secret-values

You can read more on our documentation: http://ciel-lang.org/#/libraries

We removed a couple utilities:

• removed fn and cl-punch, two libraries to offer lambda shortcuts.

Instead, we adedd a very simple macro for this:

^ is a synonym macro for lambda:

(^ (x) (+ x 10))
=> (lambda (x) (+ x 10))

and also…

• added: time is now a nickname for local-time in the ciel-user and ciel packages.
• we still add more docstrings to CL undocumented or roughly documented built-ins.
• scripts are run in ciel-user by default.
• we export serapeum:frequencies, thus as frequencies, it's just great to have.

Get it

Attached is the CIEL binary for Debian x86, built on my machine. SBCL 2.1.5, latest Quicklisp of Oct, 2023. Requirements: glibc <= 2.31.

Find binaries for Debian Buster (SBCL 2.1.5) and Void (SBCL 2.4.7) on our CI: https://gitlab.com/vindarel/ciel/-/pipelines/1433565114 choose one and download artifacts.

You can help!

We have a CI pipeline for Debian Buster, one for Void Linux and a Docker recipe thanks to our contributors. You could help us port CIEL to other platforms.

We opened the GitHub Discussions: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/discussions

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