What is it doing better than homebrew ?
I doesn't have to do anything better. It's in Rust and that should be the only reason you need to switch.
Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
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Re: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
#22FWIW the author of Homebrew is also working on a next generation package manager in rust: https://pkgx.dev/ (beware facebook tracking and infinite AI slop)
Oof. Those AI images really harm the credibility of the package manager.
Re: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
#23I was a macports user but had to switch to homebrew because most new projects went there and it was generally easier to write Formulars etc. But I never really liked the project. I think writing a new package manager on top of brew infrastructure won‘t create a better setup. I don‘t know if all casks and Formulars only use the DSL stanzas or if still some use custom ruby functions and helpers. Because otherwise this new tool might need to eval ruby scripts for backwards compatibility.
Re: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
#24What is it doing better than homebrew ?
Given homebrew was strictly worse than the tool it displaced, I’m not sure it’s the right question to ask. MacOS package management is strictly marketing based.
That’s not fair. Homebrew has been fantastic. It’s also open source, did they not accept your pull requests for these “improvements”?
Re: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
#25It’s a real disservice to the project not to give a raison d’etre in the readme, or any kind of technical motivation / differences.
Re: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
#26Hey, so I built this thing, most of it at so far at least. And yeah, right now it isn't doing many things better than Homebrew.
Setting of relative paths for bottle installs is still not perfect, well it works for every bottle I have tested except rust. Getting bottles working 100% is very doable though imo.
Build from source formulae is still pretty f*ed + I do not know if it is really feasible given that the json API lacks information there and a full on Ruby -> Rust transpiler is way out of scope. Will probably settle for automatic build system detection based on archive structure there. + Maybe do my own version of the .rb scripts but in a more general machine readable format, not .rs lol
Casks seem to work but I have only tested some .dmg -> .app ones and .pkg installers so far though. As with bottles 100% doable.
Given that almost all formulae are available as bottles for modern ARM mac this could become a fully featured package manager. Actually didn't think so many people would look at it, started building it for myself because Homebrew just isn't cutting it for what I want.
Started working on a declarative package + system manager for mac because I feel ansible is overkill for one machine and not really made for that and nix-darwin worms itself into the system so deep. Wrapping Brew commands was abysmally slow though so I started working on this and by now I am deep enough in I won't stop xD
Anyway I am grateful for every bug report, Issue and well meaning pull request.
Re: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
#27What is it doing better than homebrew ?
Given homebrew was strictly worse than the tool it displaced, I’m not sure it’s the right question to ask. MacOS package management is strictly marketing based.
Macports was less ergonomic imho, which caused the community to shift to homebrew.
Re: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
#28FWIW the author of Homebrew is also working on a next generation package manager in rust: https://pkgx.dev/ (beware facebook tracking and infinite AI slop)
Oof. Those AI images really harm the credibility of the package manager.
I both like and dislike them. First thing I searched for was the prompts, but I haven't found them yet.
As for Facebook tracking I 100% dislike that.
Re: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
#29Hey, so I built this thing, most of it at so far at least. And yeah, right now it isn't doing many things better than Homebrew. Setting of relative paths for bottle installs is still not perfect, well it works for every bottle I have tested except rust. Getting bottles working 100% is very doable though imo. Build from source formulae is still pretty f*ed + I do not know if it is really feasible given that the json A…
What makes you interested in a rust implementation of brew?
I'm guessing it's that you hoping that it is eventually more performant -- are there specific areas of current brew you have identified as performance bottlenecks likely to eventually benefit from a rust implementation?
Or any more info to share about assumptions/hopes that motivated this or any other motivations?
Re: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
#30What is it doing better than homebrew ?
Given homebrew was strictly worse than the tool it displaced, I’m not sure it’s the right question to ask. MacOS package management is strictly marketing based.
back in the day macports was a fucking nightmare. homebrew may not be perfect but it is popular for good reason.