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# Description The intended effect of the `extra` feature has been undermined by introducing the full builds on our release pages and having more activity on some of the extra commands. To simplify the feature matrix let's get rid of it and focus our effort on truly either refining a command to well-specified behavior or discarding it entirely from the `nu` binary and moving it into plugins. ## Details - Remove `--features extra` from CI - Don't explicitly name `extra` in full build wf - Remove feature extra from build-help scripts - Update README in `nu-cmd-extra` - Remove feature `extra` - Fix previously dead `format pattern` tests - Relax signature of `to html` - Fix/ignore `html::test_no_color_flag` - Remove dead features from `version` - Refine `to html` type signature # User-Facing Changes The commands that were previously only available when building with `--features extra` will now be available to everyone. This increases the number of dependencies slightly but has a limited impact on the overall binary size. # Tests + Formatting Some tests that were left in `nu-command` during cratification were dead because the feature was not passed to `nu-command` and only to `nu-cmd-lang` for feature-flag mention in `version`. Those tests have now been either fixed or ignored in one case. # After Submitting There may be places in the documentation where we point to `--features extra` that will now be moot (apart from the generated command help) |
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nu-cmd-lang
the base language and command crate of nu
The commands in this crate are the core commands of the nu language. It is also the base crate upon which all other command crates sit on top of including:
- nu-command
- nu-cli
- nu-cmd-dataframe
- nu-cmd-extra
As time goes on and the nu language develops further in parallel with nushell we will be adding other command crates to the system.
What does it mean to be a base crate ?
A base crate is one with minimal dependencies in our system so that other developers can come along and use this crate without having a lot of baggage in terms of other crates which will bloat their underlying application.
Background on nu-cmd-lang
This crate was designed to be a small, concise set of tools or commands that serve as the foundation layer of both nu and nushell. These are the core commands needed to have a nice working version of the nu language without all of the support that the other commands provide inside nushell. Prior to the launch of this crate all of our commands were housed in the crate nu-command. Moving forward we would like to slowly break out the commands in nu-command into different crates; the naming and how this will work and where all the commands will be located is a "work in progress" especially now that the standard library is starting to become more popular as a location for commands. As time goes on some of our commands written in rust will be migrated to nu and when this happens they will be moved into the standard library.