OMake

This release features significant language
improvements. The .STATIC and .MEMO rules were
added, allowing the definition of lazy
computations and lazy memoization maps. Export
sections were added, making it much easier to
manage variable scoping. It is now possible to
reference fields in sub-objects directly. Many new
built-in and library functions were added. There
were a number of significant bugfixes, including a
correction of Ctrl-C handling on Windows (which
now correctly interrupts OMake).

This release fixes a file descriptor leak and a few other minor bugs.

This release makes it easy to define default ("implicit") rules for phony targets. In addition, OMake will now detect case-insensitive filesystems on Unix-like operating systems (especially important under Mac OS X). There are a number of performance improvements and documentation updates and improvements.

This release adds a large number of new built-in and standard library functions, extends the autoconfiguration section of the standard library, makes a number of improvements in the interactive osh shell, and makes a number of improvements in the library of standard build recipes. There are also numerous documentation improvements, and a number of other improvements and bugfixes.

The conversion from OMake expressions to shell
command lines went through a major redesign in
this release to make it more consistent and less
ad-hoc. OMake documentation was significantly
reorganized. An experimental improved OCaml
dependency scanner using the upcoming "ocamldep
-modules" feature and support for the Menhir
parser-generator were added to the standard
library. A number of new options to control
OMake's output and verbosity were added; OMake is
now more silent by default. There are many other
improvements and bugfixes.