Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

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Post by joshka » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 9:45 PM UTC

Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors
discourse.brew.sh

Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

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Post by evil_google22 » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:05 PM UTC

Thanks - but us folks at Google still wouldn't employ you, because you know, inverted binary tree tests and all that.

K thanx Bye. Back to snarfing all the data. Especially cool since homebrew has homebrew usage analytics, we love to consume that data!

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Post by jv22222 » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:09 PM UTC

Thanks for linking to this thanks. And thanks, Homebrew team, for Homebrew. It has saved me countless of hours.

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Post by 7ewis » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

Is there some documentation on how to contribute?

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Post by daguava » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:26 PM UTC

I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.

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Post by nerdponx » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:26 PM UTC

7ewis wrote: post #4

Is there some documentation on how to contribute?

There's a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the repo. Documentation is a little sparse, however. This is a useful reference: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/brew/Homebrew

Reading formulas of other software is useful too.

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Post by Scarbutt » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:40 PM UTC

Curious, does homebrew really has "millions of users"?

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Post by tempay » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:47 PM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #7

Curious, does homebrew really has "millions of users"?

Looking at their analytics[1] a few million seems plausible depending on how updates are included in the numbers.

[1] https://brew.sh/analytics/

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Post by fastball » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 11:10 PM UTC

daguava wrote: post #5

I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.

What exactly makes you hate MacOS?

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Post by gerosa » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 11:19 PM UTC

After Docker, I use Homebrew only to install basic tools like git.