👔 the personal workstation valet
Setting up a new machine and managing dotfiles should be simple. However, most existing tools are either too heavy requiring runtimes like Python, quite complicated forcing you into rigid workflows, or too fragile like Bash scripts that quickly become unmaintainable.
Reginald offers a fast, reliable, and effortless workflow for this. Built in Zig, it’s self-contained, cross-platform, and extensible through a language-agnostic plugin system that uses JSON-RPC 2.0. You can add your own tasks and commands with ease in any language you would like.
Reginald is the personal workstation valet: a task runner that executes tasks idempotently according to your config file. It comes with built-in plugins for essential tasks like linking dotfiles and installing packages. Official plugins are provided for common developer needs. If you need more, you can extend Reginald with any tasks you like with your own plugins.
Important
This project is still in early development. More info on the project will be added later and the current features don’t just yet match this README.
As Reginald is still in early development, there are no prebuilt binaries or releases. However, feel free to build Reginald yourself and experiment with it.
Make sure you have at Zig 0.15.1 installed. After that, building Reginald is as simple as running the build script:
zig buildThis produces the reginald executable in ./zig-out/bin.
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Reginald is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for more information.
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