Dodo Commands

Introduction

Dodo Commands is a small framework for creating separated development environments for your projects. Each development environment contains:

• a project directory
• a set of short commands
• a configuration file with project specific parameters
• optionally, a Python virtual environment
• optionally, some docker images

Documentation

• Read the docs

License

MIT License (see the enclosed license file).

Rationale

1. Each project has a Python virtual environment, which separates it from other projects.

Call $(dodo env fooProject) to activate its Python virtual environment.

2. Each project contains a set of short commands. This allows you to run common operations quickly without having to remember too much about them.

For example, you may call dodo cmake to invoke the cmake executable in the project's C++ build directory. It's enough to type dodo cmake because all other required information (the list of cmake flags and the desired C++ source directory) is read from the project's configuration file.

3. If you switch to a different project with $(dodo env barProject), you still call dodo cmake to invoke the cmake compiler, but now the C++ build directory location and cmake parameters are read from barProject's configuration file.

4. If you enable docker support for fooProject, then it will run the cmake executable in the pre-configured docker container. This allows you to keep your runtime environments isolated from your host computer.

To learn more, try out the tutorial