[Omake] Announcing OMake 0.9.8

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 12.12.2006 01:00, Michael Vanier wrote:

> Follow-up.  In osh:
> 
> % Shell.rm(main/*.o)
> *** omake error:
>    File -: line 1, characters 0-18
>    unlink(/home/mvanier/proj/src/main/*.o): No such file or directory

Right, the globbing happens only if you use the Unix-style command line. 
Direct function call is just that - a function call; no globbing happens.

On 12.12.2006 01:28, David Kågedal wrote:

> This is from the release notes:
> 
>       + The Shell. aliases will now receive the values passed on the
>         shell command line as is, not the string-expanded version. Also,
>         if some of the arguments are the result of a glob-expansion, the
>         alias function will receive the appropriate file values, not the
>         strings.
> 
> The problem is that it's hard to understand what the second sentence
> means.

If you have two files - foo and fooz - then

rm f*

used to be equivalent to

Shell.rm($(array foo, fooz))

but now it is equivalent to

Shell.rm($(array $(file foo), $(file fooz)))

(same as Shell.rm($(file foo fooz)) )

> Who does the glob expansion, and when?

Anytime you have a shell command line (anything that's not a function 
call, rule, section heading, etc - see Section 10.8 "What is a shell 
command?" - http://omake.metaprl.org/omake-shell.html#toc89 ), the glob 
patterns in the command line are expanded before the control is passed 
to the external program xyz or a Shell.xyz function. See Section 10.2
"Globbing" - http://omake.metaprl.org/omake-shell.html#toc83 and 9.4 
"Globbing and file listings" - 
http://omake.metaprl.org/omake-system.html#toc74 for detail.

On 12.12.2006 01:46, Michael Vanier wrote:

> Huh, I fixed the problem by changing
> 
> CLEANFILES = $`(file *.opt *.run *.o *.obj *.lib *.cm* *.a *~)
> 
> to
> 
> CLEANFILES = $`(glob *.opt *.run *.o *.obj *.lib *.cm* *.a *~)

Right, it always was the case that $(file *.o) meant``literal file 
"./*.o" ''. The problem was that pre-0.9.8 the command line translation 
would turn the file value into a string and then _inappropriately_ 
expand the *. In 0.9.8 this problem is finally fixed (unfortunately, it 
had to be at the expense of backward compatibility).

Also note that there is no reason to manually force the globbing - a simple

CLEANFILES = *.opt *.run *.o *.obj *.lib *.cm* *.a *~

would do the trick as well.

Aleksey