Installer civl avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• civl

Historique du projet

The official CIVL homepage redirects to the VSL Trac wiki, and the official software directory publishes versioned CIVL releases. That directory shows a 0.x release series, a 1.x series, and later 2.0 builds, with the manual PDF dated 2021.

Historique d'adoption

The batch input shows CIVL as a Homebrew-only package among the package managers captured for this run. That matches a niche academic verification tool: important to a small formal-methods audience, but not broadly distributed like general-purpose compilers.

Modes d'utilisation

CIVL is used from the `civl` executable to model, analyze, and verify concurrent programs against CIVL's intermediate verification language and runtime model. Its official manual is the primary user documentation.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

CIVL is package-nerd interesting because it is an academic formal-verification tool distributed through Homebrew, not because it is a mass-market CLI. It is the sort of package that tests whether a package manager can carry research software with Java/toolchain assumptions and infrequent but versioned upstream releases.

Chronologie

• 2015: Official VSL directory lists early archived releases from 0.1 through 1.0.
• 2016: Official VSL directory lists the 1.6 and 1.7 release line.
• 2021: Official CIVL manual PDF was generated.
• 2026: Official VSL directory lists CIVL 2.0 builds and a main directory.

Related projects

• CIVL belongs to the University of Delaware VSL formal-methods tool family.
• It is related by domain to model checking, symbolic execution, and concurrency verification tools rather than to general programming-language runtimes.

Sources

• https://vsl.cis.udel.edu/civl/
• https://vsl.cis.udel.edu/lib/sw/civl/
• https://vsl.cis.udel.edu/lib/sw/civl/civl-manual.pdf
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/civl.json