Sick of an endlessly growing PATH?  Me too!

Envy does shell-independent environment variable management.


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

1. Easy, safe upgrade from any other dot-file setup.  Works with sh,
ksh, bash, zsh, csh, and tcsh.  Support for rc & es are planned.

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/ !

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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-release |          objstore-5.1
                   |      qsg-build10
                   |      sunpro
                   |          SUNWspro-4.2
                   |              cc-tools
 ------------------+-------------------------------------------------------


** 1998-11-20 RELEASE 2.25 [STABLE]

- Extra check for VERSION mismatch between envy.pl & Envy::DB.

- Tweaks for login.IN (patrick@rcsm.ece.mcgill.ca).


** 1998-11-08 RELEASE 2.24 [BETA]

- New short-cuts: 'unenvy' for quick unload and $ENVY_VERBOSE to set
the default verbosity level.

- Envy modules are now reference counted for more accurate dependency
tracking.  (One of Tony's satoris!)  As a side effect, the symantics
of ENVY_STATE have changed slightly (but it is still mostly backward
compatibile).

- Very long (>1000 characters) envy state variables are now split into
easily digestable chunks.  Added tests.  (Thanks Tony!)

- Implemented an optimal differencing algorithm to minimize
environment changes.

- Downgraded some errors to manditory warnings.

- Significant Envy::DB API improvements.


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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