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Homebrew maintainers are doing a fantastic job, made my life as a developer so much easier! I wanna use this opportunity to "publicly" thank them!

pgtruesdell 10y ago
Agreed. Homebrew has saved countless hours for developers, I can't believe how many hours I used to spend installing/updating different versions for testing. Now we just run (>brew switch package version) done.
- gaastonsr 10y ago
  Whoaaa didn't know that command. This could replace something like say nvm?
  - rovr138 10y ago
    It probably could. But I'm not sure if brew has everything or is updated faster than nvm.
  - rangibaby 10y ago
    I don't think so. In my experience brew only has a very limited selection of versions of packages, which is understandable.
  - mikemcquaid 10y ago
    It maybe could be hacked into replacing it but I'd not recommend it. Better to use a dedicated tool that handles this stuff more cleanly e.g. nvm.
dve 10y ago
Ditto. I install almost everything via brew and brew cask, and store the list of packages in git. It makes setting up a new machine a breeze. Thanks for all your hard work!
- krat0sprakhar 10y ago
  This is a cool idea! How does one go about doing this though? Is there a flag to output a text file with the names of installed versioned packages?
  - geerlingguy 10y ago
    Here's one example: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook Makes it a lot simpler to do a clean OS install every upgrade, and to make sure all three of my Macs are perfectly in sync!
  - sambe 10y ago
    I use `brew bundle` for this.
  - dve 10y ago
    Using brew bundle, run `brew bundle --help` for info. I then store the Brewfile along with my other dotfiles
  - mikemcquaid 10y ago
    The officially supported thing is: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle See my Brewfile in my dotfiles for how I use it to install my stuff: https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/master/Brewfile https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/master/Brewfile If you want to go a step further there's also Strap which will bootstrap your macOS system with some sensible defaults and install Homebrew, your dotfiles and your Brewfile: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap Finally, if you're interested how I combined these to replace Boxen at GitHub (our macOS system/project bootstrap tool using Puppet) read this: http://mikemcquaid.com/2016/06/15/replacing-boxen/ http://mikemcquaid.com/2016/06/15/replacing-boxen/
    - Singletoned 10y ago
      This is utterly brilliant! Thank you. I've been looking like this for quite a while. I'm still looking through it all, but I don't suppose you have a solution for setting System Preferences, particularly Trackpad settings and remapping the Caps Lock key to Ctrl?
danieldk 10y ago
I don't like 'me too's, but Homebrew has been absolutely invaluable to me. The icing on the cake is that I can just install my own software in /usr/local/Cellar/<name>/<version> or make my own tap and enjoy many of the benefits of Homebrew. Thanks Homebrew maintainers, you make macOS rock even more!

pgtruesdell 10y ago

Agreed. Homebrew has saved countless hours for developers, I can't believe how many hours I used to spend installing/updating different versions for testing. Now we just run (>brew switch package version) done.

gaastonsr 10y ago
Whoaaa didn't know that command. This could replace something like say nvm?
- rovr138 10y ago
  It probably could. But I'm not sure if brew has everything or is updated faster than nvm.
- rangibaby 10y ago
  I don't think so. In my experience brew only has a very limited selection of versions of packages, which is understandable.
- mikemcquaid 10y ago
  It maybe could be hacked into replacing it but I'd not recommend it. Better to use a dedicated tool that handles this stuff more cleanly e.g. nvm.

dve 10y ago

Ditto. I install almost everything via brew and brew cask, and store the list of packages in git. It makes setting up a new machine a breeze. Thanks for all your hard work!

krat0sprakhar 10y ago
This is a cool idea! How does one go about doing this though? Is there a flag to output a text file with the names of installed versioned packages?
- geerlingguy 10y ago
  Here's one example: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook Makes it a lot simpler to do a clean OS install every upgrade, and to make sure all three of my Macs are perfectly in sync!
- sambe 10y ago
  I use `brew bundle` for this.
- dve 10y ago
  Using brew bundle, run `brew bundle --help` for info. I then store the Brewfile along with my other dotfiles
- mikemcquaid 10y ago
  The officially supported thing is: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle See my Brewfile in my dotfiles for how I use it to install my stuff: https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/master/Brewfile https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/master/Brewfile If you want to go a step further there's also Strap which will bootstrap your macOS system with some sensible defaults and install Homebrew, your dotfiles and your Brewfile: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap Finally, if you're interested how I combined these to replace Boxen at GitHub (our macOS system/project bootstrap tool using Puppet) read this: http://mikemcquaid.com/2016/06/15/replacing-boxen/ http://mikemcquaid.com/2016/06/15/replacing-boxen/
  - Singletoned 10y ago
    This is utterly brilliant! Thank you. I've been looking like this for quite a while. I'm still looking through it all, but I don't suppose you have a solution for setting System Preferences, particularly Trackpad settings and remapping the Caps Lock key to Ctrl?

danieldk 10y ago

I don't like 'me too's, but Homebrew has been absolutely invaluable to me. The icing on the cake is that I can just install my own software in /usr/local/Cellar/<name>/<version> or make my own tap and enjoy many of the benefits of Homebrew. Thanks Homebrew maintainers, you make macOS rock even more!