dewi - User Configuration File Deployment and Withdrawal
Overview
Dewi is a powerful system, that lets you deploy your precious configuration files on a new system with a mere:
% dewi deploy
NEWS
- July 14th, 2010: dewi version 0.1 released.
- July 18th, 2010: dewi version 0.2 released.
- July 29th, 2016: dewi version 0.3 released.
Details
The initial basic ideas and the underlying design of the system is outlined in:
- Deploying configuration files (Somewhat outdated)
A possible way to bootstrap a new account in a few commands is described here:
- Bootstrapping new accounts (Somewhat outdated)
Another article that outlines version 0.3, that — among other things — fixes a number of mistakes in dewi's initial design:
Dewi is fully documented:
- Reference Manual for dewi “The System”
- Reference Manual for dewi “The Program”
- Reference Manual for dewi's Configuration File
Examples
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
More Information
Dewi's version control repository is here: dewi at github. Its README, LICENCE, CHANGES and UPGRADING files can be viewed online aswell.
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. ;)