yadoma 59.0.post1

Yet another dotfile manager

Edit 2023: yadoma was written by @esc a couple of years ago and ended up no longer maintained. It seemed that I was the only user, so I’m taking over maintenance. However, given the simplicity of the tool, I kept everything largely the same, including this README. Hence, “I” refers to @esc rather than myself. However, I’m changing the build process to tox (instead of the old pybuilder), because pybuilder seemed to have problems with environment separation that I wasn’t able to just quickly fix.

yadoma: yet another dotfile manager

This is my personal take on a dotfile-manager.

Principles

• Pile of symlinks approach

• Declarative configuration

• Composable

• Versioning not baked in

• Infinitely hackable

Prior Art (or why I decided to roll my own)

vcsh

written in shell (yuck) and has git baked in

dewi

written in perl (yuck) and didn’t grok how it worked

dotfilemanager

has weird conventions and strange config

Edit: in 2018, I discovered that there are many more dotfile-managers out there: https://dotfiles.github.io/

Example

Given the yaml config config.yadoma in the directory config/public:

example-prog:
  files:
    -
      src: .rc_with_src
      dest: .rc_with_src_dest
    -
      src: .rc_with_out_dest
    - .plainrc

And, given the following files of the directory:

.plainrc
.rc_with_src
.rc_with_out_dest

Doing:

$ yadoma config/public

Will create the following symlinks in the users $HOME for the program example-prog:

.plainrc
.rc_with_src_dest
.rc_with_out_dest

TODO and Ideas

Many.

License

Copyright 2016-2019 Valentin Haenel <[e-mail]>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.