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turtle

9.9 4.3 dotfs VS turtle

Shell programming, Haskell style
xmobar

9.9 8.7 dotfs VS xmobar

DISCONTINUED. A minimalistic status bar

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The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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optparse-applicative

9.9 5.9 dotfs VS optparse-applicative

Applicative option parser
bench

9.9 3.5 dotfs VS bench

Command-line benchmark tool
taffybar

9.9 6.8 dotfs VS taffybar

A gtk based status bar for tiling window managers such as XMonad
nix-diff

9.7 5.5 dotfs VS nix-diff

Explain why two Nix derivations differ
angel

9.7 0.0 dotfs VS angel

Process Monitoring/Management, Like Daemontools
unix

9.6 7.3 dotfs VS unix

POSIX functionality
process

9.6 6.4 dotfs VS process

Library for dealing with system processes
date-cache

9.6 4.1 dotfs VS date-cache

A fast logging system for Haskell
ghc-hotswap

9.5 0.0 dotfs VS ghc-hotswap

DISCONTINUED. Example code for how we swap compiled code within a running Haskell process.
nix-deploy

9.5 0.0 dotfs VS nix-deploy

Deploy software or an entire NixOS system configuration to another NixOS system
optparse-generic

9.5 5.0 dotfs VS optparse-generic

Auto-generate a command-line parser for your datatype
hapistrano

9.5 4.9 dotfs VS hapistrano

Deploy tool for Haskell applications, like Capistrano for Rails
envy

9.4 3.3 dotfs VS envy

:angry: Environmentally friendly environment variables
directory

9.3 7.0 dotfs VS directory

Platform-independent library for basic file system operations
typed-process

9.3 5.8 dotfs VS typed-process

Alternative API for processes, featuring more type safety
filepath

9.2 7.5 dotfs VS filepath

Haskell FilePath core library
pid1

9.2 2.6 dotfs VS pid1

Do signal handling and orphan reaping for Unix PID1 init processes
hnix-store-core

9.1 9.7 dotfs VS hnix-store-core

Haskell implementation of the Nix store
log

9.0 2.2 dotfs VS log

Structured logging solution.
hail

8.9 0.0 dotfs VS hail

DISCONTINUED. A service for pull-based continuous deployment based on hydra.
clifm

8.9 0.0 dotfs VS clifm

Command Line Interface File Manager
ekg-core

8.9 0.0 dotfs VS ekg-core

Library for tracking system metrics
openssh-github-keys

8.9 0.0 dotfs VS openssh-github-keys

DISCONTINUED. DEPRECATED: Control SSH access to your servers via GitHub teams
clock

8.9 4.6 dotfs VS clock

High-resolution clock functions: monotonic, realtime, cputime.
monky

8.7 0.0 dotfs VS monky

The main repository for monky
hobbes

8.7 0.0 dotfs VS hobbes

A cross-platform file activity monitor
logsink

8.7 0.0 dotfs VS logsink

A logging framework for Haskell
ekg-cloudwatch

8.7 0.0 dotfs VS ekg-cloudwatch

CloudWatch stats for ekg
atomic-write

8.6 6.8 dotfs VS atomic-write

Writes files atomically in Haskell while preserving permissions
apotiki

8.6 0.0 dotfs VS apotiki

DISCONTINUED. a faster debian repository
cef

8.6 0.0 dotfs VS cef

A Haskell library for CEF (Commont Event Format)
unix-compat

8.5 0.0 dotfs VS unix-compat

Haskell portable POSIX-compatibility layer
twitch

8.5 3.8 dotfs VS twitch

A high level file watcher DSL
plugins

8.5 0.0 dotfs VS plugins

Dynamic linking and runtime evaluation of Haskell, and C, including dependency chasing and package resolution.
system-fileio

8.5 0.0 dotfs VS system-fileio

Contains the system-filepath and system-fileio packages
logger

8.5 0.0 dotfs VS logger

Fast & extensible logging framework for Haskell!
language-puppet

8.4 5.7 dotfs VS language-puppet

A library to work with Puppet manifests, test them and eventually replace everything ruby.
ascii-progress

8.4 0.0 dotfs VS ascii-progress

A simple Haskell progress bar for the console. Heavily borrows from TJ Holowaychuk's Node.JS project
optparse-declarative

8.4 3.2 dotfs VS optparse-declarative

Declarative command-line option parser
hinotify

8.3 0.0 dotfs VS hinotify

Haskell binding to inotify
HFuse

8.3 3.1 dotfs VS HFuse

Haskell bindings for the FUSE library
ekg-statsd

8.3 0.0 dotfs VS ekg-statsd

Flush system metrics to statsd
which

8.3 3.3 dotfs VS which

Determine the full path to an executable.
halfs

8.2 0.0 dotfs VS halfs

The Haskell File System: A file system implementation in Haskell
executable-hash

8.2 0.0 dotfs VS executable-hash

Provides the SHA1 hash of the program executable
HPi

8.2 4.2 dotfs VS HPi

Library to access the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi from Haskell.
nix-derivation

8.1 4.3 dotfs VS nix-derivation

Parse and render *.drv files
splitmix

8.1 4.4 dotfs VS splitmix

Pure Haskell implementation of SplitMix pseudo-random number generator

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DOTFS

DotFS is first and foremost a work in progress. It is, however, usable, and the authors use it on their personal machines. The idea is that you point DotFS to a folder containing your dotfiles containing special DotFS annotations, which will then be made available as a virtual filesystem at a user-specified mountpoint. The files will be scanned for special keywords and presented on the virtual filesystem, possibly configured per-host or per-OS, however you like. The use case is a user wanting automatic configuration adjustment in larger config files with shared sections. See the wiki for a quick guide, a users' guide, a specification of the grammar, and some examples.

Note that if a file doesn't contain DotFS markup, it is passed through "vanilla" — this includes binaries. This means that you don't have to convert all your config files before starting with DotFS, but that you can annotate those which currently pose an inconvenience, and leave all the others as they are.

Requirements

POSIX system
FUSE (or OSXFUSE)
GHC (Haskell platform recommended)
Tested on Linux, hfuse needs to be un-broken on OS X

Installation

First install some dependencies (example is for Debian-like systems):

NOTE to OS X users: the HFuse library, on which we depend, doesn't build using the latest OSXFUSE library. Please use the patched version fork for now, until the pull request is hopefully accepted.

sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev fuse-utils

Install DotFS, or run from the local directory using make and then ./dotfs.

cabal configure
cabal install

Usage

See the wiki entry on usage. Soon a short presentation will also be put online which will hopefully serve as both an elevator pitch and a short introduction to the features that are available. See here.