Homebrew 3.0

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Post by blucell » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 12:57 PM UTC

Homebrew 3.0
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Re: Homebrew 3.0

#2

Post by bilekas » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 1:15 PM UTC

> The new HOMEBREW_BOOTSNAP environment variable allows the use of the Bootsnap gem to speed up repeated brew calls

Very nice.. Can't wait to do the numbers on this!

Re: Homebrew 3.0

#3

Post by cwxm » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache.

I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.

Re: Homebrew 3.0

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Post by pgt » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

/me searches changelog for "`brew update` now runs asynchronously and doesn't block the process to install a 3 year-old package." Dismayed, I do not find it.

Asynchronous formula updates would IMO save the most Mac man-years of almost any macOS tool.

Re: Homebrew 3.0

#5

Post by chris_st » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 1:19 PM UTC

Thanks for doing homebrew -- been using it for years!

Re: Homebrew 3.0

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Post by yulaow » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 1:22 PM UTC

cwxm wrote: post #3

I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache. I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.

I don't think homebrew has more user than say apt or pacman. Maybe there are a bit more people running osx than linux, but much of them are not devs or "power users" and never run homebrew.

Re: Homebrew 3.0

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Post by sschueller » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 1:23 PM UTC

What will we do if apple restricts the installation to only signed apps and brew no longer works?

Re: Homebrew 3.0

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Post by toyg » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 1:26 PM UTC

cwxm wrote: post #3

I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache. I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.

Was it him who was turned down by Apple and Google, after he built homebrew...?

Re: Homebrew 3.0

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 1:26 PM UTC

sschueller wrote: post #7

What will we do if apple restricts the installation to only signed apps and brew no longer works?

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Re: Homebrew 3.0

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Post by fnord123 » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 1:26 PM UTC

pgt wrote: post #4

/me searches changelog for "`brew update` now runs asynchronously and doesn't block the process to install a 3 year-old package." Dismayed, I do not find it. Asynchronous formula updates would IMO save the most Mac man-years of almost any macOS tool.

Optimizations to brew would save many many watthours. If I were to guess, it would be over a MWh per year.