Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by mikemcquaid » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 5:19 PM UTC

Homebrew 1.4.0
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Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

#2

Post by iRobbery » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 5:45 PM UTC

Oh nice, just upgraded everything yesterday.

Side note: I find it a pity brew upgrade webcalls google analytics.

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

#3

Post by mmastrac » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 5:46 PM UTC

iRobbery wrote: post #2

Oh nice, just upgraded everything yesterday. Side note: I find it a pity brew upgrade webcalls google analytics.

You can disable it if you aren't comfortable with it (they document this clearly multiple places).

       analytics (on|off)
              Turn on/off Homebrew's analytics.

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by drinchev » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 5:51 PM UTC

The Patreon page says they receive $177 per month. That's too low for a project with such a high popularity and usage.

I read somewhere ( and I bet ) it's used by Google / Facebook / Apple employees.

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by blackRust » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

drinchev wrote: post #4

The Patreon page says they receive $177 per month. That's too low for a project with such a high popularity and usage. I read somewhere ( and I bet ) it's used by Google / Facebook / Apple employees.

If you look into the OS version analytics, there are 397 events registered from "macOS (10.14)". That's the next version of macOS :)

https://brew.sh/analytics/os-version/

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by 2bitencryption » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

does homebrew still* use Github as the store for all packages?

Just curious, that always seemed like a strange scenario.

* or am I wrong that it ever did?

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by amarsahinovic » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 5:57 PM UTC

drinchev wrote: post #4

The Patreon page says they receive $177 per month. That's too low for a project with such a high popularity and usage. I read somewhere ( and I bet ) it's used by Google / Facebook / Apple employees.

I think this is what you mean: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by jameskilton » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 6:00 PM UTC

2bitencryption wrote: post #6

does homebrew still* use Github as the store for all packages? Just curious, that always seemed like a strange scenario. * or am I wrong that it ever did?

"Packages" in homebrew are nothing more than Ruby install files called Formulas[1]. So using Github works really well for their use case and I don't think there is any thought of changing it. Updating homebrew, new formulas, etc, is nothing more than a `git pull`.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul...

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by daveFNbuck » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 6:04 PM UTC

mmastrac wrote: post #3

iRobbery wrote: post #2

Oh nice, just upgraded everything yesterday. Side note: I find it a pity brew upgrade webcalls google analytics.

You can disable it if you aren't comfortable with it (they document this clearly multiple places). analytics (on|off) Turn on/off Homebrew's analytics.

I've been using brew for years and wasn't aware that it was using google analytics at all. It may be clearly documented, but they're not doing much to ensure users know about it.

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by stevenwoo » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 6:06 PM UTC

2bitencryption wrote: post #6

does homebrew still* use Github as the store for all packages? Just curious, that always seemed like a strange scenario. * or am I wrong that it ever did?

Both Cocoapods and Homebrew are pretty big on github. The previous cocoapods article comments mention this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245652