Mutant is an configuration file manager that uses the M4 macro language to generate configuration variations for multiple computers with different requirements.

It does do by allowing configuration templates to lock certain features behind dependencies as well as allow them to provide dependencies.

Mutant will then do dependency resolution to try to enable as much features as it can.

Read "bugs" section before proceeding.

python -m mutant

Create package

./dev.sh virtualenv
./dev.sh package

• Python3.11
• GNU Stow
• GNU M4

Although M4 was a fun language to play around with, M4 macro expansion outputs text not tokens, resulting in tons of quoting and macro hygiene issues.

It was a terrible language choice for this project and you should not use it if you value your sanity.