CHANGES:

Fixed

• Fixed the inheritance overwrites for multi-level inheritance

CHANGES:

Fixed

• Added punctuation to prompts to improve the experience with monochrome terminals
• Renamed Github to GitHub in prompts and documentation
• Fixed extra leading spaces before the template name

CHANGES:

Changed

• Split the opam plugin in an opam-spin package.

CHANGES:

Added

• Added an hello command to generate a tutorial project
• Added a parse_binaries stanza that can be true to force Spin to parse binary files
• Added a raw_files stanza that takes a list of file or glob expressions to instruct Spin to copy files instead of parsing them
• Added a new c-bindings template for C bindings using ctypes
• Added a new js template for javascript applications with js_of_ocaml

Changed

• Removed the gen subcommand. The generators will come back with a much better workflow
• Dropped support for Esy and Reason. The templates are now using the recommended OCaml setup only. The previous templates are hosted at https://github.com/ocaml-templates/
• Changed the templates to use the ISC license
• Increase version of ocamlformat to 0.18.0 in templates
• Do not install merlin when installing dev dependencies in templates
• Drop support for BuckleScript in PPX
• Drop support for publishing on NPM for CLI and PPX templates
• Update CI scripts to ocaml/setup-ocaml@v2
• Remove python dependency to serve documentation in Makefile
• Inline release script in Makefile
• Remove global -open StdLabels in templates
• The spa template has been removed from the official templates and now lives at https://github.com/ocaml-templates/spin-incr-dom
• Spin does not parse binary files by default anymore, they are simply copied to the destination folder
• Use test stanza for unit tests now that Alcotest prints colors by default
• Remove unused flags defined in the root's dune file

Fixes

• The project generation will now fail before the configurations prompt if the output directory is not empty
• By default, Spin now creates a local switch for the generated projects. This can be changed with spin config, or by setting the env variable SPIN_CREATE_SWITCH=false
• Fix an CLI incompatibility between opam.2.0.X and opam.2.1.X that made Spin unusable with the former.

CHANGES:

Added

• Added a new spa template to generate Single-Page-Application with Js_of_ocaml
• Dune's --root argument in templates' Makefiles to better compose generated projects
• The templates CI/CD is now caching Opam dependencies to improve build time
• The templates are now installing locked dependencies by default during CI/CD
• The Makefile of the templates include a small inlined python script to open the documentation with the default browser with the command servedoc

Changed

• Removed the bs-react template from the official templates. The template now lives in tmattio/spin-rescript.
• Removed dependency on Reason and use the generated project's Reason to convert .ml files to .re.

Fixed

• Fixed NPM release by vendoring a Chamomille-free version of Inquire
• Remove wrong release flags from all templates

CHANGES:

This release is a complete rewrite of Spin.

Since the beginning of the project, a lot of learnings have been made and this new version incorporates these learning to build a solid foundation for the future of Spin.

Added

• New template DSL
• Template inheritance with the (inherit ...) stanza
• Documentation of the CLI and template DSL.
• The CLI now provides a verbose flag to increase the verbosity
• The git templates are now cached

Changed

• Calling spin without a subcommand now displays a simpler usage documentation. The man page is available with spin --help
• Better man page documentation
• Better error messages
• Improvements of the configuration prompts using Inquire
• Update native templates to follow best practices (e.g. name of libraries)
• The official templates are now embedded. No need to download a git repository, and the project generation works offline.

Fixed

• Bucklescript templates now fallback to using npm when yarn is absent

CHANGES:

Added

• Add versionning for the official templates to ensure updates on the templates don't break old version of Spin.
• Sort spin ls result by name.

Templates

• Rename react to bs-react. All the upcoming Bucklescript templates will be prefixed by bs-.
• Add a lib template that is releasable on Opam.
• Make the cli and ppx templates releasable on Opam.
• Add support for Alcotest as an alternative to Rely in the native templates.
• Add support for Opam as an alternative to Esy in the native templates.
• Stop using Pesy and the dune files manually in each sub-directories.
• Move the test_runner to a subdirectory support in test.
• Extract the Contributing section of the README to a CONTRIBUTING.md file.
• Add a CHANGES.md file that complies with dune-release requirements.
• Use dune-release in the release scripts.
• Remove homebrew Formula from the cli template that was a bad practice and didn’t allow users to update the generated projects.
• Enable Windows in CI/CD of generated projects

CHANGES:

Added

• Before generating a template, Spin will check if the user has all the dependencies installed and exit gracefully if not. (by @citizen428)
• Add a condition field in the postinstall stanza for the templates.

Changed

• Print a warning when the update of the official templates failed, but continue the execution.
• Do not update the official templates when running new with a local path or a git repository.
• Remove some runtime dependencies to reduce Spin's binary size.

Fixed

• Trying to generate a file that already exists now raises an error instead of overwritting the file.
• Fix to output a proper message when no generator exist for the current project.
• Exit gracefully when failing to download a git repository or the initial templates for the first time. (by @citizen428)

Added

• Support user configuration file that stores general configuration such as the user's name, Github username, etc.
• Provide a config subcommand that can be used to change the user configuration.
• The generators can now print a message when the generation succeeds with the message stanza.

Added

• post_install stanza to run commands after installing a template now supports the working_dir stanza.
  The command will be executed in the given working directory.

Changed

• Removed unused starting_command stanza.
• Removed unused tutorial stanza.

Fixed

• Failure to parse a template file now prints an error with the file that cannot be parsed.