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DCDL (Drupal Config Dump & Load) is a configuration management module written to support migrating configuration via drush for Drupal 6. It aims to be a small tool to handle a very specific problem space: snapshotting and loading configuration parts of a site without affecting the content.
DCDL works at a very low level, pulling the configuration directly from the database and writing directly back. It does not follow any code paths in the modules, but does read and write the configuration with guidance from the modules themselves.
While it tackles a similar class of problems, this is not a replacement for the Drupal 8 CM initiative or for Features or Strongarm or any other process. It is a tool I needed for client sites in Drupal 6, that I wrote because nothing else solved my problem. I'm willing to share with the community as a whole because it may solve the same problem for someone else.