pono - pack and organize symlinks once

pono (poh-no to place/store in latin) is a cli for managing symbolic links in one place inspired by stow. Because symbolic links managment in bash script sucks.

Why?

Let's face it, managing symbolic links with bash scripts sucks because ln has poor defaults. The alternative GNU stow does almost what I wanted, but not quite. I wanted a tool that could manage symlinks for multiple packages independent of the source file structure, using a flat configuration. I also need to be able to toogle links on demand to apply different configs.

Demo

Create the pono.toml in the current directory

[ponos]
nvim = { source = "./examples/from/nvim", target = "./examples/to/nvim" }
zsh = { source = "./examples/from/zshrc", target = "./examples/to/.zshrc" }

And run

pono enable -c example/pono.toml
Linking packages
  nvim: ./examples/to/nvim (new link)
  zsh: ./examples/to/.zshrc (new link)

ls -la examples/to                                                                                                                                                     [1:00:35]
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 cris 128 Sep 14 01:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 cris 160 Sep 14 01:00 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 cris  58 Sep 14 01:00 .zshrc -> /home/cris/pono/./examples/src/zshrc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 cris  57 Sep 14 01:00 nvim -> /home/cris/pono/./examples/src/nvim
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Features

• Declarative symlink management with a simple TOML configuration file.
• Create, remove, and check symlinks for multiple packages at once.
• Customizable target directories for each package.
• Check the status of symlinks to detect broken links.

Future features

• Supports pattern matching for including or excluding files.
• Built-in dry-run mode to preview changes before applying them.
• Verbose mode for detailed output.
• Manage same link with diffrent source and toogle between them.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration
• Examples
• License

Installation

With Cargo

You can install pono using Cargo:

cargo install pono

Usage

The pono CLI allows you to install, remove, and check symlinks based on a TOML configuration file.

Commands

• enable: Create symbolic links for the defined ponos.
• disable: Remove symbolic links for the defined ponos.
• toggle: Toggle a given ponoa and verify.
• status: Check the status the define ponos.
• list: Display all available ponos from the TOML configuration.

Options

• -c --config <file>: Specify a custom TOML configuration file (default: ./pono.toml).
• --help: Display help information.

Basic Usage

Enabling symlinks (ponos)

To create symlinks for all packages defined in pono.toml:

pono enable

To enable symlinks for specific packages:

pono enable package1 package2

Disabling symlinks (ponos)

To remove symlinks for all packages:

pono disable

To disable specific packages:

pono disable package1

Checking Symlink Status

To check the status of all symlinks:

pono status
# OR
pono status package1 package2

Listing All Packages

To list all available packages from the TOML configuration:

pono list

Help

For more detailed command usage, run:

pono --help

Configuration

The configuration is defined in a pono.toml file. It specifies the source directories for your packages and where the symlinks should be created.

Example pono.toml:

[ponos.package1]
source = "path/to/package1"
target = "/usr/local/bin"

[ponos.package2]
source = "path/to/package2"
target = "/home/user/.config"

[ponos.package3]
source = "path/to/package3"
target = "/opt/tools"

Fields:

• source: The directory containing the files to be linked.
• target: The directory where the symlinks should be created.

Contributing

Building from Source

To build the project from source, you will need to have Rust installed on your system. You can then clone the repository and build the project using Cargo:

cargo build --release

Running Tests

To run the test suite, you can use the following command:

cargo test

Code Formatting

The project uses rustfmt for code formatting. You can run the following command to format the code:

cargo fmt

License

pono is licensed under the MIT License.