Previously, to avoid showing deprecation warnings for the next release when the
user is running on HEAD, a boolean CLI flag -show-deprecations is introduced,
and is set to false in the master branch. The idea is that release branches will
have this default to true, so people running released versions will see
deprecations.
However, this means that people running on HEAD will never see any deprecations
unless they use this CLI flag, which is not ideal. This commit replaces the flag
bool -show-deprecations with a numerical -deprecation-level flag, which requests
deprecations that are active as of release 0.X to be shown. The default value of
this flag will be the minor version number of the *last* release, so that people
running HEAD will see as many deprecation warnings as people running the last
release would. This number will be bumped just before releases.
* Introduce the `path:` module
This is based on https://github.com/elves/elvish/pull/1084 by @kolbycrouch
submitted five months ago. It addresses all of the feedback on that
change and includes other documentation and unit test improvements. It
also includes a couple of extensions to the original P.R., such as a
`path:is-abs` command.
I decided to resurrect that change because I want better support for
filesystem path manipulation so that users can replace non-portable
external commands such as `realpath` and `find` with Elvish builtins. This
is a baby step towards that goal.
Related #849
* Add a `path:is-regular` command
This adds a `path:is-regular` command. This is for symmetry with the
`path:is-dir` command and the glob `[type:regular]` modifier.
It also adds support for symlinks in the `testutil.Applydir` function
and change the path unit test to use it.
* Rename path:real to path:eval-symlinks
- Move NewEnvListVar to pkg/eval/vars.
- De-export GlobPattern, GlobFlag and ExternalCmd.
- Merge editor.go and chdir.go into eval.go, value_helper.go into compile_value.go.
- Remove eval_internal_test.go and replace it with a new test for $pid.
- Make Evaler mostly thread-safe. The only remaining thread-unsafe part is the
modules field, which is more tricky than other fields.
- Remove the state and evalerScopes type, and move their fields into Evaler.
- Expose valuePrefix via a get method, and change PortsFromFiles to take the
prefix instead of a *Evaler. Also expose a PortsFromStdFiles.
- Make Evaler a normal field of Frame, instead of an embedded field. This makes
access to global states more explicit.
