Gentoo Libbash Development

1.  Project Description

Libbash will enable programs to use Abstract Syntax Trees(AST) to parse and interpret shell scripts directly instead of using regular expressions. Most of bash 3.2 syntax will be supported. This will be a great benefit to programs both outside and inside Gentoo, including Portage/Paludis and repoman. Bugs are tracked and fixed from the Gentoo bug tracker. We also have the #gentoo-libbash IRC channel on the freenode network.

2.  Project Goals

The project aims to support common bash 3.2 syntax. Our current goal is to support ebuild metadata generation.

3.  Current progress

You can refer to qiaomuf's blog or gentoo-soc@list.gentoo.org for the latest progress.

4.  Developers

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

5.  Resources

Resources offered by the libbash project are:

• Latest Progress Report
• Introduction and Benchmark
• Design and Feature List
• Canonical Git Repository