dotfiles VS sheldon

(vcs_info) builtin.

I have a pretty extensive Zsh setup in vanilla Zsh: https://github.com/cbarrick/dotfiles

Here's my install script.

I just maintain an install script to do the linking. It's just a few lines of zsh to mirror one directory into another with symlinks. I've found that the bare repo approach has too many rough edges, and that the various dotfile management frameworks are overkill.

https://github.com/cbarrick/dotfiles/blob/master/home/instal...

I prefer sheldon[1] for the few plugins I use

[1] https://github.com/rossmacarthur/sheldon

Personally, I prefer https://github.com/rossmacarthur/sheldon. It's simple yet flexible, fast and shell agnostic.

Yes! rossmacarthur/sheldon is easy to use.

I’ve switched away from using OMZ as an all-in-one framework that takes over my .zshrc, but I still use some of its plugins. Its plugin management is too slow for my tastes, but there’s a few plugins that I came to rely on.

Switching to Sheldon [0] has given me the best of both worlds.

[0] https://github.com/rossmacarthur/sheldon

I noticed that sheldon is missing from those benchmarks. Does it not qualify as a "zsh framework"?

I’ve been using sheldon for the past few months and been pretty happy with it. It seems plenty fast enough and the most obscure the verbiage gets is the toml config file.