Sheldon is a fast, configurable shell plugin manager.
Plugins are specified in a TOML configuration file and Sheldon renders an install script using user configurable templates.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Plugins from Git repositories.
- Branch / tag / commit support.
- Submodule support.
- First class support for GitHub repositories.
- First class support for Gists.
- Arbitrary remote scripts or binary plugins.
- Local plugins.
- Inline plugins.
- Highly configurable install methods using templates.
- Shell agnostic, with sensible defaults for Zsh.
- Super-fast plugin loading and parallel installation. See benchmarks.
- Config file using TOML syntax.
- Clean ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc (just add 1 line).
Website: sheldon.cli.rs
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Ross MacArthur
License: Apache License version 2.0 or MIT License
sheldon is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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