Release version 0.4.0.

Makefile

@@ -15,19 +15,20 @@ luacheck:
 
 count:
 	cloc fennel.lua
+	cloc --force-lang=lisp fennelview.fnl fennelfriend.fnl launcher.fnl
+
+# For the time being, avoid chicken/egg situation thru the old Lua launcher.
+LAUNCHER=./old_launcher.lua
 
 # Precompile fennel libraries
 %.lua: %.fnl fennel.lua
-	./old_launcher.lua --globals "" --compile $< > $@
+	 $(LAUNCHER) --globals "" --compile $< > $@
 
 fennel: launcher.fnl fennel.lua fennelview.lua fennelfriend.lua
 	echo "#!/usr/bin/env lua" > $@
+	$(LAUNCHER) --globals "" --require-as-include --metadata --compile $< >> $@
 	chmod 755 $@
-	./old_launcher.lua --globals "" --require-as-include --no-searcher \
-	  --metadata --compile $< >> $@
-
-pre-compile: fennelview.lua fennelfriend.lua
 
-ci: luacheck testall count pre-compile
+ci: luacheck testall count
 
-.PHONY: test testall luacheck count pre-compile ci
+.PHONY: test testall luacheck count ci

changelog.md

@@ -1,22 +1,18 @@
 # Summary of user-visible changes
 
-## 0.4.0 / ???
+## 0.4.0 / 2020-05-12
 
 * Add `import-macros` for more flexible macro module loading (#269)
 * Ensure deterministic compiler output (#257)
-* Fix an issue where quoted forms did not have filename/line source data (#253)
 * Add bit-wise operators `rshift`, `lshift`, `bor`, `band`, `bnot`, and `bxor`
 * Friendlier compiler/parse error messages with suggestions
 * Omit compiler internal stack traces by default unless `FENNEL_DEBUG=trace`
 * Add support for `__fennelview` metamethod for custom serialization
 * Fix a bug where `dofile` would report the wrong filename
 * Fix bug causing failing `include` of Lua modules that lack a trailing newline (#234)
 * Introduce `pick-values` and `pick-args` macros (as `limit-*`: #246, as `pick-*`: #256)
-* Fix a bug where destructuring tables emits locals in unstable order in Lua 5.2/5.3 (#259)
-* Set macros on scope.macros & add new `macroexpand` helper to expand macro forms during
-compilation rather than uplifting macros to specials. (#258)
-* Add `macrodebug` util macro for printing expanded macro forms in REPL. (#258)
-* Make completion walk scope ancestors for macros & specials (#260)
+* Add new `macroexpand` helper to expand macro forms during compilation (#258)
+* Add `macrodebug` utility macro for printing expanded macro forms in REPL (#258)
 
 ## 0.3.2 / 2020-01-14
 

fennel.lua

@@ -2453,7 +2453,7 @@ local module = {
     macroLoaded = macroLoaded,
     path = table.concat(pathTable, ";"),
     traceback = traceback,
-    version = "0.4.0-dev",
+    version = "0.4.0",
 }
 
 -- In order to make this more readable, you can switch your editor to treating

launcher.fnl

@@ -135,14 +135,14 @@ Run fennel, a lisp programming language for the Lua runtime.
 
 (fn repl []
   (let [readline (try-readline (pcall require :readline))]
-    (when (not readline)
-      (print "Try installing readline via luarocks for a better repl experience."))
     (set options.pp (require :fennelview))
     (when (not= false options.fennelrc)
       (load-initfile))
     (print (.. "Welcome to Fennel " fennel.version "!"))
     (when (not= options.useMetadata false)
       (print "Use (doc something) to view documentation."))
+    (when (not readline)
+      (print "Try installing readline via luarocks for a better repl experience."))
     (fennel.repl options)
     (when readline
       (readline.save_history))))

rockspecs/fennel-0.4.0-1.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+-- -*- lua -*-
+
+package = "fennel"
+version = "0.4.0-1"
+source = {
+    url = "git+https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel",
+    tag = "0.4.0"
+}
+description = {
+   summary = "Lisp that compiles to Lua",
+   detailed = [[
+A lisp-like language that compiles to efficient Lua. Combine
+meta-programming with Lua.]],
+   homepage = "https://fennel-lang.org/",
+   license = "MIT"
+}
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1"
+}
+build = {
+   type = "builtin",
+   modules = {
+       fennel = "fennel.lua",
+       fennelview = "fennelview.lua",
+       fennelfriend = "fennelfriend.lua"
+   },
+   install = {
+       bin = {
+           -- use the old launcher for now; once we have a chance to mess about
+           -- with the build we can try compiling the new launcher with the
+           -- old; ideally during packaging time we would compile the bin/fennel
+           -- script, but luarocks docs do not explain how to do this.
+           fennel = "old_launcher.lua"
+       }
+   }
+}