docs: refresh README for consumers and document current features#55
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Reorient installation around consumer-friendly methods (Homebrew first, then prebuilt release binaries and Docker, with cargo last) and bring the docs up to date with shipped features that were missing: - Homebrew install (PeterKneale/tap/bioassert) and prebuilt binary downloads. - file.compression / file.compressed metrics (file checks + metrics table). - text.* family (text.value, text.length): checks section and metrics table. - Conditional assertions (if/unless guards) and the SKIP outcome, including how SKIP stays exit-code neutral. - Generalise the syntax from <file> to <resource> to reflect non-file resources (text.*), and bump the Nextflow example container to 3.1.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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Pull request overview
This PR refreshes README.md to better match the current feature set and present installation/usage from a tool consumer’s perspective (including newly documented text.*, file compression metrics, and conditional guards).
Changes:
- Reorders Installation and Quick start to lead with Homebrew and adds a prebuilt-binaries install path.
- Documents
file.compression/file.compressed,text.value/text.length, and conditional assertions withif/unlessproducing aSKIPoutcome. - Updates the canonical assertion syntax from
<file>to<resource>and bumps the Nextflow container example tag to3.1.1.
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- The Quick start section still describes the assertion shape as
<file> <metric> <comparator> <value>, but elsewhere the README now correctly generalises the first token to a<resource>(and later documents optionalif/unlessguards). This line should be updated to match the documented syntax so consumers don’t assume the first token must be a filesystem path.
brew install PeterKneale/tap/bioassert
Write your checks to an assertions file. Each line is <file> <metric> <comparator> <value>; blank lines and lines
beginning with # are ignored, and whitespace between fields is flexible so you can align columns for readability:
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| The `text.*` family treats the first token as an inline literal string rather than a file path, so it does no file I/O | ||
| and never errors on a missing file. It is handy for quick checks and as a [guard](#conditional-assertions-guards) input. | ||
| Quote the literal if it contains dots, dashes, colons or spaces. |
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| Append `if` or `unless` and a full condition to evaluate an assertion only when that condition holds. The condition has | ||
| the same `<resource> <metric> <comparator> <value>` shape as an assertion and may target a different file: |
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| Metrics on an inline literal string under the `text.*` namespace. The first token is the literal itself (not a file | ||
| path), so these never touch the filesystem. Quote the literal if it contains dots, dashes, colons or spaces. |
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What
Updates the README to read from a tool consumer's perspective and brings it back in sync with the code.
Installation (reordered for consumers)
brew install PeterKneale/tap/bioassert(now the lead method, also in Quick start)Newly documented features (were shipped but undocumented)
file.compression(none/gzip/bgzf/bzip2/xz/zstd/zip) andfile.compressed— in the file-checks examples and the File metrics tabletext.*family (text.value,text.length) — new "Text checks" section and "Text metrics" tableif/unlessguards) and theSKIPoutcome — new section, plus a note in Results/exit codes thatSKIPis exit-code neutralAccuracy fixes
<file>to<resource>(sincetext.*resources are inline literals, not paths):1.4.0to:3.1.1No code changes.
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