Create a python package

It would be useful to have a package to manage dotfiles outside ~/, something like this (considering you already have a dotfiles repo installed and configured):

pip install dotbot
mkdir project
cd project
git init
dotbot --install gitignore-language-template

Where the file is inside the dotfiles dir and the install command would copy instead of symlinking. Where is the dotfiles dir? I guess that could be configured inside a dotfile 😉

This would make the dotfiles templating management works for projects outside ~/, which is an nice-to-have feature

[anishathalye]

Hmm, true. I actually like the submodule setup quite a bit, so I’m not going to remove it, but there’s no harm in making this available as a PyPI package as well.

So let’s do it! I’ll probably have time sometime in the next week or so to push this out.

[gilmrjc]

Well even in a fresh system I see the package option as something better, but this is just my opinion because I prefer to pip install instead of downloading files. It’s easier for me to keep up to date with the project.

Also note that the package can coexist with the current interface. There is no reason to wipe out the install script. In fact if the dotbot have its own library like pointed in #75 the install script and the command line can use the same functions. So both options can be implemented with all the logic in the same place.

Install dotfiles

If you use dotbot you have python, and surely you have pip, so just do:

pip install dotbot
git clone git:my-dotfiles-repo ~/.dotfiles
dotbot

In a fresh system I have to do

git clone git:my-dotfiles-repo ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
python ./install.py

Almost the same, but more power with the package installed (ok, this is true only if it includes the other options)

Create dotfiles repo

The initscript can be implemented in python to make this posible:

pip install dotbot
dotbot --create

With the initscript

curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Vaelatern/init-dotfiles/master/init_dotfiles.sh
./init_dotfiles.sh