jill.py

This release doesn't change the overall functionality, just some UI enhancements:

• print more information in jill upstream
• add colors to screen outputs

Bug fixes:

• When non-root user finds some updates via jill update then don't error even if he doesn't have write permission.

This release doesn't have any new features or bug fixes, it's just a house clean release:

• codes are reorganization heavily
• more documentation

Bug fixes:

• jill install nightly in windows was broken
• symlink for nightly build wasn't created correctly in some cases

Enhancements:

• support Windows (#19)
• support FreeBSD (#20)
• when installing an old Julia version, don't override symlinks that target to a newer version (#21)
• remove --update flag for download and install; it's enabled by default now.

Enhancements:

• support tier 2 architectures: ARMv7 and ARMv8

Enhancements:

• add two version alias: stable and nightly

Bugfix:

• fix --update flag for install and download

Enhancements:

• Introduce a new flag jill install --upgrade that will copy the root project from an older version.

Bugfix:

• jill install still re-download the installer if there's one for MacOS and Windows (introduced in v0.2.3)

Bugfix:

• jill install --update didn't really update release info in v0.3.0, it's now fixed

Bug fixes:

• don't symlink julia-latest to julia (#11)
• fix permission error for system-wide installation (#12)

Enhancements:

• allows the download and installation for unstable releases (e.g., 1.4.0-rc1)

Breaking changes:

• remove the leading "v" from placeholder: version

By default remove downloaded release files after jill install. You can still add a --keep_downloads flag to keep them.

download and verify gpg signature

fix mirror bug when period != 0

When receiving args from the console, convert the argument to the correct types for jill mirror

• add --upstream flag so that users can specify which server they want to download from
• add --update flag to download and install
• jill mirror now doesn't require any config file for a minimal setup

• add two more subcommands: jill update and jill mirror
• support partial version string: jill install, jill install 1 and jill install 1.2

It's the first release that provides all functionalities of the original jill:

• jill download VERSION
• jill install VERSION