Pearl

Because only in the best Shells you will find a Pearl...

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pearl-core/installer/master/install.sh
bash install.sh

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Table of Contents

Description
Quickstart
Installation
- Dependencies
- Linux
- OSX
Create your own Pearl package in seconds!
Create your own Pearl repository in seconds!
Troubleshooting
Contributing

Description

Pearl is a package manager for dotfiles, plugins, programs and any form of code accessible via git for Linux and OSX.

As soon as a package gets installed, its content can be activated out of the box according to certain events, like, for instance, a shell startup (Bash, Zsh or Fish) or an editor startup (Vim or Emacs). This is possible via a smart and simple hook mechanism that integrates the package content within the Pearl ecosystem.

The main advantages on using Pearl are:

Create your own Pearl package in seconds (any git repository is already a Pearl package)!
Full control and sync of your dotfiles across different systems.
Automatic bootstrap of the package content whenever shells or editors get started.
Access to a wide range of existing packages via the OPH (Official Pearl Hub).
Allows to create your own package repository that can be shared with your friends!
Stable codebase with 100+ unit tests and exhaustive integration tests via Travis for Linux and OSX.
Small number of dependencies needed in order to ensure compatibility with most of the systems.

Quickstart

The Pearl CLI script allows to: list, search, install, update, remove the Pearl packages defined according to the configuration located in ~/.config/pearl/pearl.conf

List

List all the available packages:

$ pearl list
...
pearl/dot-git
    Awesome git dotfiles (https://github.com/pearl-hub/git)
pearl/sesaila [installed]
    Awesome aliases for Bash, Zsh and Fish shells (https://github.com/pearl-hub/sesaila)
pearl/airline [installed]
    Status/tabline for vim (https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline)
pearl/trash [installed]
    Smart command to recover files you regretted to delete (https://github.com/pearl-hub/trash)
...

Search

Search for vim Pearl packages:

$ pearl search vim
* Updating https://github.com/pearl-hub/repo.git repository
pearl/dot-vim
    Awesome vim dotfiles (https://github.com/pearl-hub/vim)

Install

Install pearl/dot-vim package (as soon as the package is installed the package is ready out of the box in vim editor!):

$ pearl install dot-vim
* Updating https://github.com/pearl-hub/repo.git repository
* Installing pearl/dot-vim package

Install pearl/trash package:

$ pearl install trash
* Updating https://github.com/pearl-hub/repo.git repository
* Installing pearl/trash package
$ trash -h
Usage: trash file1 file2 ....
Moves to trash the files
Options:
        -s, --show                  Shows the trash
        -e, --empty                 Empties the trash
        -r, --recovery <file ...>   Recovers trashed files
        -c, --count                 Count the trashed files
        -h, --help                  Show this help message

Update

Update pearl/dot-vim package:

$ pearl update dot-vim
* Updating https://github.com/pearl-hub/repo.git repository
* Updating pearl/dot-vim package

Update Pearl and all its packages installed:

$ pearl update
...
* Updating https://github.com/pearl-hub/repo.git repository
* Updating Pearl script
* Updating pearl/dot-vim package
* Updating pearl/airline package
* Updating pearl/trash package
* Updating pearl/caprica package
...

Remove

Remove pearl/dot-vim package:

$ pearl remove dot-vim
* Updating https://github.com/pearl-hub/repo.git repository
* Removing pearl/dot-vim package

Remove Pearl and all its packages installed:

$ pearl remove
...
Are you sure to REMOVE all the Pearl packages in $PEARL_HOME folder? (N/y)
* Updating https://github.com/pearl-hub/repo.git repository
* Removing pearl/dot-vim package
* Removing pearl/airline package
* Removing pearl/trash package
* Removing pearl/caprica package
...

Recommended Pearl Hub packages to install:

Check out the OPH (Official Pearl Hub) for more packages you might be interested.

Installation

Dependencies

Before installing Pearl be sure that all dependencies are properly installed in your system. The Pearl dependencies are the following:

The following are optional dependencies in case you are using a different shell from bash:

Linux

Assuming all Pearl dependencies are properly installed in the system, to install Pearl run the following:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pearl-core/installer/master/install.sh
bash install.sh

OSX

In order to install all Pearl dependencies, you first need to install Homebrew.

To install all the needed dependencies via Homebrew:

brew update
brew install bash git coreutils

Once all Pearl dependencies are properly installed in the system, to install Pearl run the following:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pearl-core/installer/master/install.sh
bash install.sh

Create your own Pearl package in seconds!

Any git repository is already a Pearl package. For instance, in order to see a dotfiles repository in Pearl, you just need to change the Pearl configuration file located in $HOME/.config/pearl/pearl.conf.

Add the following line to pearl.conf file:

PEARL_PACKAGES["joe-dotfiles"]="https://github.com/joe/mydotfiles.git"

In other words, update the PEARL_PACKAGES array with a new entry containing the name of the package (i.e. joe-dotfiles) and the git url (i.e. https://github.com/joe/mydotfiles.git).

That's it! The package will be ready to be installed, updated and removed via the Pearl system.

Also, an optional description of the package can be defined via PEARL_PACKAGES_DESCR array:

PEARL_PACKAGES_DESCR["joe-dotfiles"]="The Joe's dotfiles"

Structure of a Pearl package

Your own git repository can contain an optional directory named pearl-metadata used by Pearl to integrate the package with the Pearl environment.

/ (package root)
│
├── pearl-metadata (optional directory)
│   │
│   ├── install.sh
│   ├── config.sh
│   ├── config.bash
│   ├── config.zsh
│   ├── config.fish
│   ├── config.vim
│   └── config.el
│
└── (additional package content)

The metadata files are also optional scripts:

install.sh - contains the hooks functions executed during the install, update and remove events.
config.sh - will be sourced whenever a new Bash/Zsh shell is starting up.
config.bash - will be sourced whenever a new Bash shell is starting up.
config.zsh - will be sourced whenever a new Zsh shell is starting up.
config.fish - will be sourced whenever a new Fish shell is starting up.
config.vim - will be executed whenever vim editor is starting up.
config.el - will be sourced whenever emacs editor is starting up.

The following variables can be used in any of the previous scripts:

PEARL_HOME - Pearl location (default: $HOME/.config/pearl)
PEARL_ROOT - Pearl script location
PEARL_PKGDIR - Pearl package location
PEARL_PKGVARDIR - Pearl package location containing data needed for package

Additionally, the script install.sh can use the utility functions available in utils directory that make easier the integration with Pearl ecosystem.

Useful examples of Pearl packages can be checked in the Official Pearl Hub.

The install.sh script

Hook functions

post_install - Called after an installation of the package occurs.
pre_update - Called before an update of the package occurs.
post_update - Called after an update of the package occurs.
pre_remove - Called before a removal of the package occurs.
post_remove - Called after a removal of the package occurs.

An install.sh script example

post_install() {
    info "Awesome - new package installed!"
    warn "Remember to setup your config located in: ~/.dotfiles"
    link tmux "$PEARL_PKGDIR/mytmux.conf"
}
post_update() {
    post_install
}
pre_remove() {
    info "dotfiles package removed"
    unlink tmux "$PEARL_PKGDIR/mytmux.conf"
}

The info and warn are functions that print a message using different colors (namely white and yellow).

The link unlink are idempotent functions (the result will not change if the function will be called multiple times) that are able to link/unlink a config file in order to be loaded at startup by a certain program.

All these functions belong to the utils.sh script.

Create a Pearl package from a local directory

Pearl package system will work even for local directories. This is particularly useful whenever a Pearl package needs to be tested before pushing to a git repository.

For instance, the following lines in pearl.conf file will add a package located in /home/joe/dotfiles:

PEARL_PACKAGES["joe-dotfiles"]="/home/joe/dotfiles"
PEARL_PACKAGES_DESCR["joe-dotfiles"]="The Joe's dotfiles"

The directory path must be an absolute path.

The package will be ready to be installed, updated and removed via the Pearl system.

The directory content can be structured in the exact way as described in the previous section.

Create a Pearl package from a Vim plugin

Packages containing Vim plugins are specials. They are automatically detected via pathogen, so there is no need to use hooks functions to link the Vim plugin with Pearl. This feature will be probably available for Emacs too in the future.

Use third-party project not available in Pearl Hub

If you want to use a third-party project that is not available in the Official Pearl Hub, you can:

Point directly to the third-party project git repository
Create your own git repository and use git submodule

Point directly to the third-party project git repository

Let's suppose you want to install the vim-rails plugin. In your Pearl configuration (~/.config/pearl/pearl.conf), add your new Pearl package:

PEARL_PACKAGES["vim-rails"]="https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails.git"
PEARL_PACKAGES_DESCR["vim-rails"]="Ruby on Rails power tools"

Install the package:

pearl install vim-rails

Voila', your new vim plugin is ready to be used!

This approach is particularly useful whenever you do not need to specify any pearl metadata to "enrich" the third-party project inside the Pearl environment.

Create your own git repository and use git submodule

Inside your git repository, you just need to add the third-party project as a git submodule. For instance, to add the powerline in your Pearl package, you can introduce a submodule in the module directory:

git submodule add https://github.com/powerline/powerline.git module

The filesystem structure of the package will become something like this:

/ (package root)
│
├── pearl-metadata (optional directory)
├── module/        (contains third-party code)
└── (additional package content)

Then, you just need to modify the metadata scripts in order to integrate the third-party project inside Pearl environment.

To see examples of Pearl packages from third-party projects take a look at the Official Pearl Hub.

Create your own Pearl repository in seconds!

A Pearl repository is just a git repository containing a file named repo.conf with a list of packages. For instance, the OPH repository is available here.

In order to use the new repository (i.e. "https://github.com/myrepo/pearl-repo.git"), update the pearl.conf file by adding the following line:

PEARL_REPOS+=("https://github.com/myrepo/pearl-repo.git")

Troubleshooting

##Corrupted Pearl Home directory##

Q: What should I do if I accidentally removed files/packages in $PEARL_HOME?

A: You can recover the structure of the $PEARL_HOME by running:

$> pearl init

The command will create all the essential directories and symlinks in $PEARL_HOME. It is harmless to run the init command multiple times since it is idempotent.

##Corrupted package##

Q: Why I can no longer update/remove a package?

A: This is probably because either one of the hook functions is failing or the package content is corrupted. You can forcely delete a package by simply removing its directory:

$> rm -rf $PEARL_HOME/packages/pearl/<packagename>

After that, you can reinstall the package again. The Pearl packages contain a dedicated directory var for storing data needed for the package itself. The var data are always managed by the package and they never gets deleted by Pearl during the package removal. If you want to delete the content in var package:

$> rm -rf $PEARL_HOME/var/pearl/<packagename>

Contributing

You could help improving Pearl and the OPH in the following ways:

zaxebo1 / pearl Goto Github PK

pearl's Introduction