Sick of an endlessly growing PATH?  Me too!

Envy does shell-independent environment variable management.


Envy tries to avoid being ambitious.  It is designed as a narrow tool
to solve a specific and practical problem without going wildly
overboard.  Its modest scope includes:

1. Easy, safe conversion from any other dot-file setup.  Works with
sh, ksh, bash, zsh, csh, and tcsh.  Support for rc & es would not be
difficult.

2. A mechanism is provided for setting and prepending environment
variables in a variety of flexible ways.  All modifications are
reversible.  I think reversibility is important.

3. Standardized, customizable, machine generated .profile, .login, and
crontab wrappers.

Available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JPRIT/ !
  (requires perl 5.005)

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Here's what it looks like:

[joshua@grdevl137] ~% envy
   dailydb-dev                          imag-dbo-testdb
 x dev                                  imag-dev-2513
   dev-area-setup                       imag-dev-2519
   fame                                 imag-prod
   framemaker                           java
 x fvwm95-2.0.43a                       objstore
   gcc                                x openwin
   gems-1.9.1-dev                       printing
   gems-2.0-dev                         prod
   gems-2.0.alpha.14                    prod-new
   gems-dev                             research
   gems-intl-rpts                     x reuters
   gems-prod                            solaris
   imag-2519                            sunpro
   ...

'x' indicates that the environement file is loaded in the current
shell.  Also, you can look at dependencies like this:

 ------------------+-------------------------------------------------------
  DIMENSION        |  ENVY
 ------------------+-------------------------------------------------------
  First            |  qsg
                   |      openwin
                   |      printing
  p4               |      qsg-p4
  3boink           |  3boink-prod
                   |      objstore
  objstore         |          objstore-5.1
                   |      qsg-build10
                   |      sunpro
  sunpro           |          SUNWspro-4.2
                   |              cc-tools
 ------------------+-------------------------------------------------------


** 1999-06-09 RELEASE 2.36

- Significant ergonomic improvements to wrapper. (Kudos to
Alexander.Shugayev@db.com & Vicky.Nayer@db.com)

- Assure order of ENVY_PATH when switching between environments.

- Warnings for stupid dimension names.

- Quell warnings emitted by unload all.

- s/depreciated/deprecated/g

- Versions 2.34 & 2.35 were for prerelease testing.


** 1999-05-13 RELEASE 2.33 [STABLE]

- Change default $PATH to /bin:/usr/bin (suggested by
binkley@bigfoot.com),

- New FAQ entry: how to manage perl releases with envy.


see ./INSTALL for hints on installation
see ./UPGRADE if you are starting from a prior releases
see ./TODO for a list of stuff in the tuit queue
see ./CHANGES for a visionary perspective


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