v5.3

Changelog

5.3

• 5.3 (09.08.2024) Added Yuescript support. Added a few functions.

• Yuescript support. You can now use Alfons.yue files (or any taskfile that ends in .yue) to load in Yuescript tasks.

• Additions to the environment.

  • values: Get the values of a table as an array
  • entries: Turns a table into an array of key-value tuples
  • fromEntries: Reverses the process of entries

Alfons 5.2

• Taskfile documentation. You can now document your Taskfiles for automatic help messages and shell completion.
  • Check the documentation for more info.
• Help messages. You can now display a help message with --help, or even get help for a specific task with --help [task].
  • This help message can be automatically generated from the detected tasks in the Taskfile.
  • It works best when you document your Taskfile, so you can add descriptions and options.
• Shell autocompletion. Shell autocompletion is now available in Zsh and Bash flavors.
  • The Zsh flavor is by far the most complete, since Zsh's completion system is slightly more capable.
  • Bash is only able to list tasks, and sometimes options or flags for those tasks. Use Zsh.
  • Check the documentation for more info and install instructions.
• Additions to the environment.
  • lines: Split a string into lines
  • split: Split any string by any pattern
  • sanitize: Neutralizes pattern magic characters in strings
  • keys: Get the keys of a table as an array
  • slice: Creates a slice of an array
  • map, reduce, filter do to arrays what you would expect
  • contains has been rewritten

Full Changelog: v5.1...v5.2

Alfons 5.1

What's Changed

Added two functions to the Alfons environment:

• cmdread uses safePopen/io.popen to execute a command and return all of its output.
• safePopen is the equivalent of safeOpen for io.popen

Full Changelog: v5.0.2...v5.1

Alfons 5

An update where I replace ol' inefficient filekit with a much more sane lpath. It comes with some small API changes described here:

• Compatibility with ComputerCraft has been removed. Alfons 5 is not compatible with it.
• Replaced filekit with lpath
  • fs in the environment no longer points to filekit, but to path.fs
  • path, fsinfo and env have been added to the environment, corresponding to path, path.info and path.env respectively.
• Additions to the environment
  • safeOpen: Open IO handles safely
  • listAll: Returns a list of all files and directories recursively.
  • copy: Recursive file copy
  • delete: Recursive delete
  • isEmpty: Checks if a directory is empty
• Changes to the environment
  • All FS operations don't deal in absolute paths anymore
  • wildcard and iwildcard may exhibit slightly different behavior.