lfnt 0.1.8

For eating development-environment elephants.

Elephant (lfnt)

lfnt eats development environments.

What??

Setting up a development environment is a lot like eating an elephant—you have to take it one bite at a time. Whether you're such a noob that you don't know what a noob is, or you're such a vet that you already have opinions about this project, you know that starting from scratch is daunting. Meanwhile, everyone keeps eating, and re-eating, the same elephant!

In my humble opinion, that's just stupid.

But I'm not alone. Developers now commonly add their own config files and installation scripts to a code repo. Yet even that is still a pain in the ass to manage, especially when it comes down to every little detail.

That's where lfnt comes in useful—it handles all of the grunt-work for you. lfnt eases the pain of managing your development environment by:

• Maintaining your configuration repository
• Keeping track of what packages have been installed and how
• Restoring your whole setup to a new machine from your configuration repository

So just install this package and let lfnt do the rest!

How??

lfnt is written in Python3, which means that most workstations are already equipped to use it. It allows you to interact with your environment from a command-line and/or visually from a local web app. You can use it to create a new configuration repository or to sync with an existing one...or don't use one at all, whatever.

All you need to do is start up a terminal and run:

pip install lfnt

After the installation is complete, run lfnt with no arguments for a synopsis. For example:

$ lfnt
Usage: lfnt [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

For eating development-environment elephants.

Options:
--help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
browse  Run in a web browser.
dump    Take a config dump.
eat     Ingest packages and applications.
new     Initialize a configuration.
vomit   Eject packages and applications.