Feature definition vs. Puppet and Dotfiles

[charneykaye]

Puppet

Lots of common purpose!

Defines states, not procedures.

Resource Types (Types)

Resource Types are single units of configuration composed by:

A type (package, service, file, user, mount, exec ...)

A title (how is called and referred)

Dotfiles

• http://zachholman.com/2010/08/dotfiles-are-meant-to-be-forked/
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dotfiles
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles
• https://github.com/bkochendorfer/dotfiles
• https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
• https://github.com/alrra/dotfiles
• https://github.com/cowboy/dotfiles
• https://github.com/pjan/ubuntu-dotfiles

The dotfiles buckle is expected to point to the repository where dotfiles are version controller. An example of base/dotfiles would be:

type: dotfiles
vcs: git
url: git@github.com:charneykaye/dotfiles.git 

Buckling a dotfiles buckle is the equivalent of running the bootstrap.sh some programmers have kept in their dotfiles folder.

Everything in this and the New buckle dotfiles ticket ought to be included in the main README, as this disambiguation of feature definition between strap and dotfiles - how they are different and in fact work perfectly as a team - is core to the mission of Strap.