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- While folks are welcome to read through the entire comments, the core
information is summarized here.
# Description
This PR drastically improves startup times of Nushell by only parsing a
single submodule of the Standard Library that provides the `banner` and
`pwd` commands. All other Standard Library commands and submodules are
parsed when imported by the user. This cuts startup times by more than
60%.
At the moment, we have stopped adding to `std-lib` because every
addition adds a small amount to the Nushell startup time.
With this change, we should once again be able to allow new
functionality to be added to the Standard Library without it impacting
`nu` startup times.
# User-Facing Changes
* Nushell now starts about 60% faster
* Breaking change: The `dirs` (Shells) aliases will return a warning
message that it will not be auto-loaded in the following release, along
with instructions on how to restore it (and disable the message)
* The `use std <submodule> *` syntax is available for convenience, but
should be avoided in scripts as it parses the entire `std` module and
all other submodules and places it in scope. The correct syntax to
*just* load a submodule is `use std/<submodule> *` (asterisk optional).
The slash is important. This will be documented.
* `use std *` can be used for convenience to load all of the library but
still incurs the full loading-time.
* `std/dirs`: Semi-breaking change. The `dirs` command replaces the
`show` command. This is more in line with the directory-stack
functionality found in other shells. Existing users will not be impacted
by this as the alias (`shells`) remains the same.
* Breaking-change: Technically a breaking change, but probably only
impacts maintainers of `std`. The virtual path for the standard library
has changed. It could previously be imported using its virtual path (and
technically, this would have been the correct way to do it):
```nu
use NU_STDLIB_VIRTUAL_DIR/std
```
The path is now simply `std/`:
```nu
use std
```
All submodules have moved accordingly.
# Timings
Comparisons below were made:
* In a temporary, clean config directory using `$env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME =
(mktemp -d)`.
* `nu` was run with a release build
* `nu` was run one time to generate the default `config.nu` (etc.) files
- Otherwise timings would include the user-prompt
* The shell was exited and then restarted several times to get timing
samples
(Note: Old timings based on 0.97 rather than 0.98, but in the range of
being accurate)
| Scenario | `$nu.startup-time` |
| --- | --- |
| 0.97.2
([aaaab8e](aaaab8e070))
Without this PR | 23ms - 24ms |
| This PR with deprecated commands | 9ms - <11ms |
| This PR after deprecated commands are removed in following release |
8ms - <10ms |
| Final PR (remove deprecated), using `--no-std-lib` | 6.1ms to 6.4ms |
| Final PR (remove deprecated), using `--no-config-file` | 3.1ms - 3.6ms
|
| Final PR (remove deprecated), using `--no-config-file --no-std-lib` |
1ms - 1.5ms |
*These last two timings point to the opportunity for further
optimization (see comment in thread below (will link once I write it).*
# Implementation details for future maintenance
* `use std banner` is a ridiculously deceptive call. That call parses
and imports *all* of `std` into scope. Simply replacing it with `use
std/core *` is essentially what saves ~14-15ms. This *only* imports the
submodule with the `banner` and `pwd` commands.
* From the code-comments, the reason that `NU_STDLIB_VIRTUAL_DIR` was
used as a prefix was so that there wouldn't be an issue if a user had a
`./std/mod.nu` in the current directory. This does **not** appear to be
an issue. After removing the prefix, I tested with both a relative
module as well as one in the `$env.NU_LIB_DIRS` path, and in all cases
the *internal* `std` still took precedence.
* By removing the prefix, users can now `use std` (and variants) without
requiring that it already be parsed and in scope.
* In the next release, we'll stop autoloading the `dirs` (shells)
functionality. While this only costs an additional 1-1.5ms, I think it's
better moved to the `config.nu` where the user can optionally remove it.
The main reason is its use of aliases (which have also caused issues) -
The `n`, `p`, and `g` short-commands are valuable real-estate, and users
may want to map these to something else.
For this release, there's an `deprecated_dirs` module that is still
autoloaded. As with the top-level commands, use of these will give a
deprecation warning with instructions on how to handle going forward.
To help with this, moved the aliases to their own submodule inside the
`dirs` module.
* Also sneaks in a small change where the top-level `dirs` command is
now the replacement for `dirs show`
* Fixed a double-import of `assert` in `dirs.nu`
* The `show_banner` step is replaced with simply `banner` rather than
re-importing it.
* A `virtual_path` may now be referenced with either a forward-slash or
a backward-slash on Windows. This allows `use std/<submodule>` to work
on all platforms.
# Performance side-notes:
* Future parsing and/or IR improvements should improve performance even
further.
* While the existing load time penalty of `std-lib` was not noticeable
on many systems, Nushell runs on a wide-variety of hardware and OS
platforms. Slower platforms will naturally see a bigger jump in
performance here. For users starting multiple Nushell sessions
frequently (e.g., `tmux`, Zellij, `screen`, et. al.) it is recommended
to keep total startup time (including user configuration) under ~250ms.
# Tests + Formatting
* All tests are green
* Updated tests:
- Removed the test that confirmed that `std` was loaded (since we
don't).
- Removed the `shells` test since it is not autoloaded. Main `dirs.nu`
functionality is tested through `stdlib-test`.
- Many tests assumed that the library was fully loaded, because it was
(even though we didn't intend for it to be). Fixed those tests.
- Tests now import only the necessary submodules (e.g., `use
std/assert`, rather than `use std assert`)
- Some tests *thought* they were loading `std/log`, but were doing so
improperly. This was masked by the now-fixed "load-everything-into-scope
bug". Local CI would pass due the `$env.NU_LOG_<...>` variables being
inherited from the calling process, but would fail in the "clean" GitHub
CI environment. These tests have also been fixed.
* Added additional tests for the changes
# After Submitting
Will update the Standard Library doc page
# Description
The standard library's `path add` function has some surprising side
effects that I attempt to address in this PR:
1. Paths added, if they are symbolic links, should not be resolved to
their targets. Currently, resolution happens.
Imagine the following:
```nu
# Some time earlier, perhaps even not by the user, a symlink is created
mkdir real-dir
ln -s real-dir link-dir
# Then, step to now, with link-dir that we want in our PATHS variable
use std
path add link-dir
```
In the current implementation of `path add`, it is _not_ `link-dir` that
will be added, as has been stated in the command. It is instead
`real-dir`. This is surprising. Users have the agency to do this
resolution if they wish with `path expand` (sans a `--no-symlink` flag):
for example, `path add (link-dir | path expand)`
In particular, when I was trying to set up
[fnm](https://github.com/Schniz/fnm), a Node.js version manager, I was
bitten by this fact when `fnm` told me that an expected path had not
been added to the PATHS variable. It was looking for the non-resolved
link. The user in [this
comment](https://github.com/Schniz/fnm/issues/463#issuecomment-1710050737)
was likely affected by this too.
Shells, such as nushell, can handle path symlinks just fine. Binary
lookup is unaffected. Let resolution be opt-in.
Lastly, there is some convention already in place for **not** resolving
path symlinks in the [default $env.ENV_CONVERSIONS
table](57452337ff/crates/nu-utils/src/sample_config/default_env.nu (L65)).
2. All existing paths in the path variable should be left untouched.
Currently, they are `path expand`-ed (including symbolic link
resolution).
Path add should mean just that: prepend/append this path.
Instead, it currently means that, _plus mutate all other paths in the
variable_.
Again, users have the agency to do this with something like `$env.PATH =
$env.PATH | split row (char esep) | path expand`.
3. Minorly, I update documentation on running tests in
`crates/nu-std/CONTRIBUTING.md`. The offered command to run the standard
library test suite was no longer functional. Thanks to @weirdan in [this
Discord
conversation](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/614593951969574961/1256029201119576147)
for the context.
# User-Facing Changes
(Written from the perspective of release notes)
- The standard library's `path add` function no longer resolves symlinks
in either the newly added paths, nor the other paths already in the
variable.
# Tests + Formatting
A test for the changes working correctly has been added to
`crates/nu-std/tests/test_std.nu` under the test named
`path_add_expand`.
You can quickly verify this new test and the existing `path add` test
with the following command:
```nu
cargo run -- -c 'use crates/nu-std/testing.nu; NU_LOG_LEVEL=INFO testing run-tests --path crates/nu-std --test path_add'
```
All commands suggested in the issue template have been run and complete
without error.
# After Submitting
I'll add a release note to [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged.
# Description
Work for #7149
- **Error `with-env` given uneven count in list form**
- **Fix `with-env` `CantConvert` to record**
- **Error `with-env` when given protected env vars**
- **Deprecate list/table input of vars to `with-env`**
- **Remove examples for deprecated input**
# User-Facing Changes
## Deprecation of the following forms
```
> with-env [MYENV "my env value"] { $env.MYENV }
my env value
> with-env [X Y W Z] { $env.X }
Y
> with-env [[X W]; [Y Z]] { $env.W }
Z
```
## recommended standardized form
```
# Set by key-value record
> with-env {X: "Y", W: "Z"} { [$env.X $env.W] }
╭───┬───╮
│ 0 │ Y │
│ 1 │ Z │
╰───┴───╯
```
## (Side effect) Repeated definitions in an env shorthand are now
disallowed
```
> FOO=bar FOO=baz $env
Error: nu:🐚:column_defined_twice
× Record field or table column used twice: FOO
╭─[entry #1:1:1]
1 │ FOO=bar FOO=baz $env
· ─┬─ ─┬─
· │ ╰── field redefined here
· ╰── field first defined here
╰────
```
related to
-
https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/614593951969574961/1162406310155923626
# Description
this PR
- does a bit of minor refactoring
- makes sure the input paths get expanded
- makes sure the input PATH gets split on ":"
- adds a test
- fixes the other tests
# User-Facing Changes
should give a better overall experience with `std path add`
# Tests + Formatting
adds a new test case to the `path_add` test and fixes the others.
# After Submitting
related to
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10233
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/10293
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/10292
inspired by @kubouch
# Description
this PR adds a `repeat` command to the standard library
# User-Facing Changes
a new `repeat` command in `std`
```nushell
repeat anything a bunch of times, yielding a list of *n* times the input
# Examples
repeat a string
> "foo" | std repeat 3 | str join
"foofoofoo"
Usage:
> repeat <n>
Flags:
-h, --help - Display the help message for this command
Parameters:
n <int>: the number of repetitions, must be positive
Input/output types:
╭───┬───────┬───────────╮
│ # │ input │ output │
├───┼───────┼───────────┤
│ 0 │ any │ list<any> │
╰───┴───────┴───────────╯
```
# Tests + Formatting
a new test called `repeat_things` in `test_std.nu`
# After Submitting
# Description
* The path to the binaries for tests is slightly incorrect. It is
missing the build target when it is set with the `CARGO_BUILD_TARGET`
environment variable. For example, when `CARGO_BUILD_TARGET` is set to
`aarch64-linux-android`, the path to the `nu` binary is:
`./target/aarch64-linux-android/debug/nu`
rather than
`./target/debug/nu`
This is common on Termux since the default target that rustc detects can
cause problems on some projects, such as [python's `cryptography`
package](https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/7248).
This technically isn't a problem specific to Android, but is more likely
to happen on Android due to the latter.
* Additionally, the existing variable named `NUSHELL_CARGO_TARGET` is in
fact the profile, not the build target, so this was renamed to
`NUSHELL_CARGO_PROFILE`. This change is included because without the
rename, the build system would be using `CARGO_BUILD_TARGET` for the
build target and `NUSHELL_CARGO_TARGET` for the build profile, which is
confusing.
* `std path add` tests were missing `android` test
# User-Facing Changes
For those who would like to build nushell on Termux, the unit tests will
pass now.
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# Description
Test runner now uses annotations instead of magic function names to pick
up code to run. Additionally skipping tests is now done on annotation
level so skipping and unskipping a test no longer requires changes to
the test code
In order for a function to be picked up by the test runner it needs to
meet following criteria:
* Needs to be private (all exported functions are ignored)
* Needs to contain one of valid annotations (and only the annotation)
directly above the definition, all other comments are ignored
Following are considered valid annotations:
* \# test
* \# test-skip
* \# before-all
* \# before-each
* \# after-each
* \# after-all
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# Description
For years, Nushell has used `let-env` to set a single environment
variable. As our work on scoping continued, we refined what it meant for
a variable to be in scope using `let` but never updated how `let-env`
would work. Instead, `let-env` confusingly created mutations to the
command's copy of `$env`.
So, to help fix the mental model and point people to the right way of
thinking about what changing the environment means, this PR removes
`let-env` to encourage people to think of it as updating the command's
environment variable via mutation.
Before:
```
let-env FOO = "BAR"
```
Now:
```
$env.FOO = "BAR"
```
It's also a good reminder that the environment owned by the command is
in the `$env` variable rather than global like it is in other shells.
# User-Facing Changes
BREAKING CHANGE BREAKING CHANGE
This completely removes `let-env FOO = "BAR"` so that we can focus on
`$env.FOO = "BAR"`.
# Tests + Formatting
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- `cargo run -- crates/nu-std/tests/run.nu` to run the tests for the
standard library
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# After / Before Submitting
integration scripts to update:
- ✔️
[starship](https://github.com/starship/starship/blob/master/src/init/starship.nu)
- ✔️
[virtualenv](https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/blob/main/src/virtualenv/activation/nushell/activate.nu)
- ✔️
[atuin](https://github.com/ellie/atuin/blob/main/atuin/src/shell/atuin.nu)
(PR: https://github.com/ellie/atuin/pull/1080)
- ❌
[zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/blob/main/templates/nushell.txt)
(PR: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/pull/587)
- ✔️
[oh-my-posh](https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/blob/main/src/shell/scripts/omp.nu)
(pr: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/pull/4011)
# Description
Test runner now performs following actions in order to run tests:
* Module file is opened
* Public function with random name is added to the source code, this
function calls user-specified private function
* Modified module file is saved under random name in $nu.temp-path
* Modified module file is imported in subprocess, injected function is
called by the test runner
# User-Facing Changes
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* Test functions no longer need to be exported
* test functions no longer need to reside in separate test_ files
* setup and teardown renamed to before-each and after-each respectively
* before-all and after-all functions added that run before all tests in
given module. This matches the behavior of test runners used by other
languages such as JUnit/TestNG or Mocha
# Tests + Formatting
# After Submitting
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Co-authored-by: amtoine <stevan.antoine@gmail.com>
related to the namespace bullet point in
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8450
# Description
this was the last module of the standard library with a broken
namespace, this PR takes care of this.
- `run-tests` has been moved to `std/mod.nu`
- `std/testing.nu` has been moved to `std/assert.nu`
- the namespace has been fixed
- `assert` is now called `main` and used in all the other `std assert`
commands
- for `std assert length` and `std assert str contains`, in order not to
shadow the built-in `length` and `str contains` commands, i've used
`alias "core ..." = ...` to (1) define `foo` in `assert.nu` and (2)
still use the builtin `foo` with `core foo` (replace `foo` by `length`
or `str contains`)
- tests have been fixed accordingly
# User-Facing Changes
one can not use
```
use std "assert equal"
```
anymore because `assert ...` is not exported from `std`.
`std assert` is now a *real* module.
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- ⚫ `toolkit test`
- ⚫ `toolkit test stdlib`
# After Submitting
```
$nothing
```
# Notes for reviewers
to test this, i think the easiest is to
- run `toolkit test stdlib` and see all the tests pass
- run `cargo run -- -n` and try `use std assert` => are all the commands
available in scope?
# Description
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Add "os record" support.
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This don't change how path add works but just adds support for "os
records" aka records whose key are at least one of:
- linux
- macos
- windows
Check the
[test](a917f1a924/crates/nu-std/tests/test_std.nu (L31-L32))
if that's not clear enough
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PATH and Path are different (in nushell at least) based on the OS
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None the command now works as expected
# Tests + Formatting
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Related to:
- #8311
- #8353
# Description
with the new `$nu.startup-time` from #8353 and as mentionned in #8311,
we are now able to fully move the `nushell` banner from the `rust`
source base to the standard library.
this PR
- removes all the `rust` source code for the banner
- rewrites a perfect clone of the banner to `std.nu`, called `std
banner`
- call `std banner` from `default_config.nu`
# User-Facing Changes
see the demo: https://asciinema.org/a/566521
- no config will show the banner (e.g. `cargo run --release --
--no-config-file`)
- a custom config without the `if $env.config.show_banner` block and no
call to `std banner` would never show the banner
- a custom config with the block and `config.show_banner = true` will
show the banner
- a custom config with the block and `config.show_banner = false` will
NOT show the banner
# Tests + Formatting
a new test line has been added to `tests.nu` to check the length of the
`std banner` output.
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`
# After Submitting
```
$nothing
```
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