dotslash 0.5.8

Command-line tool to facilitate fetching an executable, caching it, and then running it.

DotSlash: simplified executable deployment

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DotSlash (dotslash) is a command-line tool that lets you represent a set of platform-specific, heavyweight executables with an equivalent small, easy-to-read text file. In turn, this makes it efficient to store executables in source control without hurting repository size. This paves the way for checking build toolchains and other tools directly into the repo, reducing dependencies on the host environment and thereby facilitating reproducible builds.

The dotslash package allows you to use DotSlash in your Python projects without having to install DotSlash globally.

Table of Contents

• Using as a library
• Using as a command-line tool
• License

Using as a library

The dotslash.locate function returns the path to the DotSlash binary that was installed by this package.

>>> import dotslash
>>> dotslash.locate()
'/root/.local/bin/dotslash'

Using as a command-line tool

The installed DotSlash binary can be invoked directly by running the dotslash module as a script.

python -m dotslash path/to/dotslash-file.json

License

DotSlash is licensed under both the MIT license and Apache-2.0 license; the exact terms can be found in the LICENSE-MIT and LICENSE-APACHE files, respectively.