dewi - user configuration file deployment and withdrawal

Dewi is a powerful system, that lets you deploy your precious configuration files on a new system with a mere:

% make deploy

The basic ideas and the underlying design of the system is outlined in:

• Deploying configuration files

A possible way to bootstrap a new account in a few commands is described here:

• Bootstrapping new accounts

Dewi is fully documented:

• dewi(7)
• dewi(1)
• dewifile(5)

Examples of full-blown Dewifiles can be found here:

• Dewifile of my zsh setup: Uses hooks and filename transformers.
• Dewifile of my emacs setup: This is a giant Dewifile, that handles a number of non-trivial problems:
  • Deploy emacs setup for unix
  • Deploy emacs setup for cygwin
  • Deploy emacs setup for win32
  • Byte-compile the emacs lisp files after deployment

Dewi's version control repository is here: dewi at github. Its README can be viewed online aswell.

Example extensions can be found in the `examples' subdirectory.

Currently, there are no release tarballs and no vendor packages I know of.

Dewi is registered at ohloh: dewi at ohloh Feel free to visit, rate and hit the "I use it" button. ;)