Question: using octopress-deploy in isolation?

[dgmstuart]

I'm using octopress/octopress for my blog, and deployment with that is such a nice experience that I'd like to use octopress/deploy to deploy another jekyll site which I have - a pretty simple one which doesn't have any posts, and so wouldn't make use of the main functionality of the octopress cli.

I could just add the main octopress gem to my gemfile, but that feels a bit bloat-y so I've made a bin/deploy script so that I can use octopres/deploy in isolation:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'octopress-deploy'
Octopress::Deploy.push

This works but feels like a bit of a hack. Is octopress/deploy intended to be used in isolation at all, or is it just a way of isolating some of the code from octopress/octopress?

Did you consider giving this gem it's own executable commands? Would it ever make sense to extract Octopress::Command into a tiny gem which could be included in octopress/octopress, octopress/deploy and any other gems which might add commands to the octopress executable in future?

(p.s. thanks again for all your work on these tools)