GNU Stow

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Project Summary

GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place. For example, /usr/local/bin could contain symlinks to files within /usr/local/stow/emacs/bin, /usr/local/stow/perl/bin etc., and likewise recursively for any other subdirectories such as .../share, .../man, and so on.

This is particularly useful for keeping track of system-wide and per-user installations of software built from source, but can also facilitate a more controlled approach to management of configuration files in the user's home directory, especially when coupled with version control systems.

In a Nutshell, GNU Stow...

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has had 377 commits made by 9 contributors
representing 8,637 lines of code
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is mostly written in Perl
with a well-commented source code
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 2 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2001
ending with its most recent commit about 4 years ago

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git://git.savannah.gnu.org/stow.git

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Managers:

Adam Spiers

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This Project has No vulnerabilities Reported Against it

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