BILL
The Bash Improved Leveraging Library
| Author: | Adrián Pérez <aperez@igalia.com> |
|---|---|
| Version: | 0.2 |
| License: | GPL3 |
| Copyright: | 2008-2009 Igalia S.L. |
Abstract
Bill strives to be a solution for developing applications which can be run on platforms with limited resources (e.g. embedded systems) on top of the GNU Bash shell, with a focus on quality and reusability of shell code.
It does so by providing module system with its standard library, which you can leverage in your own scripts, both by using existing modules and splitting your program in reusable components.
Additionally, tools for documenting and testing modules, and serving web applications are provided as part of the package.
Contents
News
Occasionally I write news and blog posts related to Bill.
Features
Bill architecture
As a quick summary, Bill brings to you:
- Ability of running on small, embedded systems with scarce resources.
- Bash as the only dependency. Choose one of netpipes, ipsvd or ucspi-tcp for TCP sockets support.
- Module system for shell code.
- Standard library (batteries included!)
- Billets container.
- Creation of standalone scripts.
- Tools for documentation generation.
- Tools for writing unit tests.
Last, but not least Bill also has the following:
- Catchy name.
- “Stolen” logo.
Get Billed!
Packages for the latest release (0.2-1) are available here:
- Source code: bill-0.2.tar.bz2
- Debian package (all platforms): bill_0.1-2_all.deb
Development code can also obtained from from the GIT repository hosted at Gitorious:
git clone git://gitorious.org/bill/mainline.git
Documentation
- The tutorial is a quick reading to get started with Bill.
- How to write documentation in shell code using the included tools.
- Deploying Bill scripts. A must if you plan to distribute your shell code and being nice to others not requiring them to have Bill installed.
- Standard library module index
- Billets manual. Covers set-up, administration and a quick tour on developing billets.
Development
- How to contribute to Bill.
- Development road map.
- Code style guidelines. Contains tips on how to write shell code.