Homebrew 1.0.0

Among all the software I use, Homebrew must be the one giving me the least trouble. I have 100 installed packages and I don't remember the last time anything didn't work. Plus, for anything I care about, updates seem to always take less than a day, usually it's almost instantaneous.

In comparison with MacPorts before, it's like night and day. npm/pip/mix/bundler all seem to periodically conspire to waste a few hours of my time (even though I can do that quite well on my own).

NPM being the worst of the bunch. By a lot. About this much:

`tree node_modules`

Re: Homebrew 1.0.0

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Post by _kyran » Wed, Sep 21, 2016, 9:46 AM UTC

Thanks to Mike and everyone else that has contributed to Homebrew. I couldn't imagine how difficult it would be managing command line programs on a Mac without it.

Re: Homebrew 1.0.0

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Post by firegrind » Wed, Sep 21, 2016, 9:50 AM UTC

kersten wrote: post #3

brew update brew --version

Thanks for adding the detail I hoped to get from the article

Re: Homebrew 1.0.0

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Post by emdowling » Wed, Sep 21, 2016, 9:58 AM UTC

There has been a lot of talk in HN comments recently about Homebrew installing to `/usr/local`. With macOS Sierra, the user can no longer write to this folder without specifically owning it. Is there a security risk here and if so, whats the best workaround?

Re: Homebrew 1.0.0

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Post by Empact » Wed, Sep 21, 2016, 9:58 AM UTC

Throwback to that one time Google wouldn't hire @mxcl. ;) https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

Well done Mike and contributors! It's a great piece of work.

Re: Homebrew 1.0.0

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Post by icantdrive55 » Wed, Sep 21, 2016, 9:58 AM UTC

kersten wrote: post #3

brew update brew --version

Kersten is a nice name.

Re: Homebrew 1.0.0

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Post by VeejayRampay » Wed, Sep 21, 2016, 9:59 AM UTC

Homebrew is a huge help that perfectly fills the niche it's intended for. Thanks for all people involved, you're time savers, which is pretty much the most sought after quality of a software project.