This project uses (perhaps the development version of) [`b0`] for
development. Consult [b0 occasionally] for quick hints on how to
perform common development tasks.

[`b0`]: https://erratique.ch/software/b0
[b0 occasionally]: https://erratique.ch/software/b0/doc/occasionally.html

# Build system for distribution

The build system used for distribution is in the `Makefile`.

# Changing completion scripts

To test them you can: 

    source ./src/tool/zsh-completion.sh  # zsh
    source ./src/tool/bash-completion.sh # bash
    
This replaces the generic completion function used by tool completion 
scripts with the new definition. Trying to complete tools should now
use the new definitions.

If you change completion scripts in [`src/tool`](src/tool) you must invoke:

    b0 -- update-cmdliner-data

so that the changes get incorporated into the `cmdliner` tool.


# Testing

Testing is done with `B0_testing` from `b0.std`. The catch is that
`B0_testing` depends on `cmdliner` so we need a build of `b0.std` with
our build of `cmdliner` to link against our test executables.

To do so we do a checkout of `b0`'s repo in `test/b0` (which is ignored
by `git`).

    cd test
    git clone https://erratique.ch/repos/b0.git

The [`B0.ml`](B0.ml) file of cmdliner includes `test/b0/B0.ml` and the
`default` pack of `B0.ml` is unlocked so that when a test executable
requires `b0.std` it is looked up and built againt the development
version of cmdliner. After that testing remains [as usual].

[as usual]: https://erratique.ch/software/b0/doc/occasionally.html#test

## Manual renderings

Various manual renderings are snapshot tested in the test executables,
mostly in plain text.

The `test_man` test can be invoked with `--test-help[=FMT]` to interactively
test the various `--help[=FMT]` invocations, including paging.

    b0 -- test_man --test-help
