Eden: Evangelion Development Environment Nexus

Unix initialization solution that supports multiple OS

Why Eden?

The demand is straightforward:

• I have multiple instances of Unix-like OS: PC, macbook, AWS EC2, Computing cluster, WSL, etc.
• I want to have a consistent environment on all these machines, including:
  • package installation (fd, ripgrep, fzf, etc.)
  • dotfiles (zshrc, gitconfig, etc.)
  • private keys, etc.

A few bash scripts sounds like a good idea, but it's not enough:

• Different OS may have different package managers (apt, brew, etc.).
• I may or may not have root access (sudo) on these machines, which foundamentally changes the way to install packages.
• They may or may not have desktop GUI (X11, Wayland, etc.), which indicates if some packages are needed.
• There might be built-in version of some packages (rsut, ruby, go, etc.), which I might not want to overwrite.

W.I.P.

Design Choice

I choose to use Python over bash for the following reasons:

• More advanced logic can be implemented easily in Python.
• It's easy to develop and test Python codes.
• Easy to maintain and extend.

Predecessor

eva_init is the predecessor of Eden. It's a bash-based project that does the same thing, but it gets really messy and is hard to maintain and extent after a while.