Improving my dotfiles manager with pipx and inline dependency metadata

I have a (somewhat unnecessarily) custom setup for managing my dotfiles and I made a nice improvement to it today. How it works The dotfiles are managed by a Python script. In broad strokes, the script will: read a TOML file locate the configured paths create symlinks, based on custom marker text in the filenames, for files in subdirectories under the configured paths1 If there’s a conflict (i.e. two configured paths provide the same symlink target location), the TOML file contains the resolution for it (i....

May 31, 2024 · 6 minutes