What is uze?

I wrote zsh scripts and libraries for more than 15 years now and i'm very opiniated about what a minimal ~/.zshenv could be.

• zsh options to be set to make code more reliable and maintainable (complaining as soon as something is wrong, reduce quoting hell, provide poor man namespaces, ...)

• use POD as documentation system so modules could be documented as well as a perl module.

• helpers that need to be written once and forever

• way to write, document, test and share the code (inspired by the perl syntax and conventions)

uze.zsh is here to be sourced in your ~/.zshenv or your script so those best practices are available. Now you can write zsh this way: (mir test suite)

uze mir
uze devel/TAP :all

mir_is_loaded () 
for expected ( mir/ed mir/dump ) {
    got="$( shush2 whence -wam $expected )"
    [[ ${got%: *} == $expected ]]
    ok "$expected is ready to use" ||
    note "got $got"
}


prove mir_is_loaded

Perl has CPAN, Python has Pypi, Lua has rocks, Javascript has npm, Lilypond has lyp, it's time for zsh to have something similar. you can see modules using uze.

Installation

source uze.zsh from your ~/.zshenv.

Zsh, seriously?

For some historical reasons, zsh comes with flaws and conventions are there to make those flaws less annoying. zsh is still relevant for a lot of tasks as it is a dynamic langage comming with lot of features.

• distributed (over ssh)
• parallel (over pipes and fifo)
• extensible with any programming langage as any command can be run from zsh
• with some functional programming features
  • symbols can carry command names
  • piping is the easiest way to create closures
  • everything is stateless in a pipe
• comming with the most productive REPL ever, daily used by most of unix users

Modules you must know about

testing

see devel-tap repo and test anything protocol.

Testing is very important as your zsh scripts relies on incompatible tools which silently misbehave at runtime (GNU core utils, BSD tools, 9base ...).

It is also recommended to install devel/TAP so you can write test suites for your

• a TAP generator to write test suites

• add helpers to embrace some good practices (perl inspired when possible) (yada yada operator, die, warn, ...)

• it is recommended to install and use the devel/TAP module to test your programs and modules. see