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I've worked with mike to maintain formula for years and he is always pleasant and on top of things in what is a very hectic job. Homebrew is such a good packag
by tbrock 10y ago
I've worked with mike to maintain formula for years and he is always pleasant and on top of things in what is a very hectic job.
Homebrew is such a good package manager (and not for the reasons any package manager is classically considered good). It's great because the community is so vibrant, the user experience is so well thought out, and the formula dsl makes so much logical sense. It's actually both a GitHub and Ruby showcase.
Thanks homebrew team! Here to many more years of accessible packages on the Mac.
- mikemcquaid 10y agoThanks for the kind words, Tyler. You've been doing great work for us for a long time so the feelings are mutual.
- joshmanders 10y agoThank you Mike and team, seriously. Homebrew is a must have and I can't function on a machine that doesn't have it.
- stephenr 10y ago> not for the reasons any package manager is classically considered good You can say that again. Homebrew's dependency management is a fucking joke, to the point that it might as well not exist.
- tbrock 10y agoHonestly, it never seems to be a problem for me and I use homebrew extensively.
- freehunter 10y agoThat's the reason I stopped using Homebrew and plenty of other comments have said the same thing. Maybe it's changed recently, but last time I used it (about a year ago), dependencies were not cleanly resolved in every case.
- sperglord 10y agoWhat better alternative exists?
- stephenr 10y agoDepends what sort of packages you want. I used to use it for things like local installs of server-side stuff (e.g. language runtime, database server, cache server, etc) but I've moved to using vagrant (and in turn Debian, so Apt) for those things. For dev tools such as Mercurial, Git, Autotools, etc there are first/third party .pkg installers available.