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How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

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Re: How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

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Post by matthewbauer »

davexunit wrote: post #50
paulirish wrote: post #35

> At least on OS X, things are a little easier with Homebrew. Absolutely. I adore Homebrew and it's ecosystem. Cask, in particular, is quite satisfying; gotta love installing a swath of neccessary fonts from the terminal. And, fwiw, the project is about to be on Homebrew, with no tap required: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/49040 Though getting it up was not quite as pain-free than our initial publishes to…

Using npm to distribute a shell script, seriously? That's not such a good idea. I think what you want is something like the Autotools so your software may be installed with the standard './configure && make && make install'. This way, you make it easy for upstream distributions to package your software.

Wouldn't that have issues with Windows? I'm not a huge fan of NPM but it works really well when you want to be cross platform.

Re: How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

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Post by knodi123 »

rdl wrote: post #47

I still use macports; what's the current state of opinion of homebrew vs. fink vs. macports?

the current trend, based on what I've seen open-source projects using, seems to be strongly towards homebrew. Not sure if I've seen a project recommending install via fink in quite a few years.

Re: How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

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Post by jfb »

eridius wrote: post #18
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #13

I've been forcefully switched to OS X recently because work, and overall it's been pretty great (I view it as a well-integrated UI over FreeBSD). A couple of things drive me nuts though: * (the window manager sucks, but that's not the topic. I had to get it out) * it needs a good package manager For us ol' bearded folk (at least spiritually), OS X comes with a slew of unix tools we love. It already includes both vim…

Homebrew installs in /usr/local, not in /usr, and OS updates never touch /usr/local. And if you're paranoid, you can instruct Homebrew to install somewhere else instead.

It's a good idea to install elsewhere, because there are other packages that install into /usr/local (TeX, for example) that aren't in homebrew. I like having my homebrew installation totally separate -- I feel significantly more comfortable upgrading my software to bleeding edge versions if there's no chance of some non-homebrew brain-dead configure script grabbing them. I install to ~/.homebrew, and everything works fine for me. Of course, I don't use ruby at all, or install Python or Emacs packages via homebrew, so I haven't had any of the problems that the homebrew folks warn about on their installation page.

Re: How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

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Post by idle_zealot »

alviria wrote: post #48
joshmanders wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux Homebrew[0] can cover it for linux. Just need Windows Homebrew. [0]: https://github.com/Linuxbrew/linuxbrew

Wait, what problem is this solving?

  > Can install software to a home directory and so does not require sudo
  > Install software not packaged by the native distribution
  > Install up-to-date versions of software when the native distribution is old
  > Use the same package manager to manage both your Mac and Linux machines
From the "Features" section of the Github.

It could also likely be used so make a "safe" Linux distro, where the base system is mounted read only, with a writable home partition.

Re: How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

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Post by jsz0 »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #13

I've been forcefully switched to OS X recently because work, and overall it's been pretty great (I view it as a well-integrated UI over FreeBSD). A couple of things drive me nuts though: * (the window manager sucks, but that's not the topic. I had to get it out) * it needs a good package manager For us ol' bearded folk (at least spiritually), OS X comes with a slew of unix tools we love. It already includes both vim…

> the window manager sucks

If you like tiling window managers Amethyst is worth checking out. It's a little unpredictable sometimes but otherwise it works well.

Re: How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

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Post by ksherlock »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #13

I've been forcefully switched to OS X recently because work, and overall it's been pretty great (I view it as a well-integrated UI over FreeBSD). A couple of things drive me nuts though: * (the window manager sucks, but that's not the topic. I had to get it out) * it needs a good package manager For us ol' bearded folk (at least spiritually), OS X comes with a slew of unix tools we love. It already includes both vim…

I used macports through two or three upgrades before switching to home-brew last year. Switching was one of the best decisions I ever made. In terms of MacOS package managers -- in the grand scheme of things it's not really a big deal. First world problems, right?

MacPorts is very, umm, opinionated. And doesn't seem to trust anything outside of itself. And has some weird opinions, too.

Example: For some reason, svn is a dependency for nmap. Forgot those gravity waves, the next nobel prize belongs to whoever can figure out why a network scanner depends on an obsolete version control system. So macports installs a shiny new version of svn. Which doesn't play nice with the svn that Xcode uses. Overtime I run (macport) svn from the command line it tells me to upgrade my repository, which breaks the Xcode svn.

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