Quill is a project automation system for Tcl projects.
Current Release:
Quill v0.4.0
- Quill has a new template architecture for project trees and other project elements.
- There are now two project tree templates, "app" and "lib".
- There is now a 'quill add' command, for adding skeleton project elements (libs, apps, etc.) to existing projects.
Quill is hosted at
http://github.com/wduquette/tcl-quill; please leave any bug reports in the Issue tracker on the repository home page.
Quill releases are built for Linux, OS X, and Windows; however, all development is done on OS X; please report any bugs found on other platforms so that I can fix them ASAP. -
WHDYou can install
VirtualBox on OS X and install Windows and Linux for testing purposes. -
RLHWhat is Quill?Quill is patterned after the
Leiningen build tool for the Clojure language. It is intended to handle the following tasks, and to make them as easy as possible:
- Build project trees with skeleton apps, libraries, documentation, and test suites.
- Manage external dependencies, pulling external packages in from a teapot server.
- Run tests
- Format HTML documentation
- Build applications and libraries
- Install applications and libraries for local use
- Build distribution .zip files
- Work with the project code in Tkcon
Automating Tasks with Quill:Create a new project tree:
$ quill new app my-project myapp
...
$ cd my-project
$ ./bin/myapp.tcl
my-project 0.0a0
Args: <>
$
Run the project tests:
$ quill test
... (runs tcltests; they'll fail until you add some real ones)
Build an executable, a starkit or a standalone executable
$ quill build
$ ./bin/myapp-0.0a0-tcl.kit
or
$ ./bin/myapp-0.0a0-win32_ix86.exe
Install the application for local use:
$ quill install
$ ls ~/bin
myapp
$ myapp
my-project 0.0a0
