tip

This is an unreleased snapshot built from the main branch. Like a nightly but more up to date.

Acton now supports package dependencies and has a package manager to work with
these, fetching and building them. There are new docs at https://acton.guide

Added

• Package management!
  • Acton now supports adding dependencies on other packages, either in a local
    path or to be downloaded from the Internet.
  • This largely relies on the Zig package manager and the Zig build system
  • It is also possible to add a Zig package dependency in an Acton project in
    order to enable the integration with Zig / C / C++ libraries
• json.encode() now has a pretty option to enable pretty printing
• file.ReadFile() & file.WriteFile() now support taking an advisory lock on
  Linux and MacOS
• acton now takes a project lock before compiling to avoid races

Changed

• Use OSError instead of RuntimeError for general exceptions in the file
  module functions and classes

Testing / CI / Build

• Stopped building the vendored libraries we ship, they are now shipped as
  source and compiled on demand
• Simplify actondb build
• Add dependabot config for updating GitHub Actions workflows