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Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

139 points by joshka 9y ago

evil_google22 9y ago
Thanks - but us folks at Google still wouldn't employ you, because you know, inverted binary tree tests and all that. K thanx Bye. Back to snarfing all the data. Especially cool since homebrew has homebrew usage analytics, we love to consume that data!
jv22222 9y ago
Thanks for linking to this thanks. And thanks, Homebrew team, for Homebrew. It has saved me countless of hours.
7ewis 9y ago
Is there some documentation on how to contribute?
- nerdponx 9y ago
  There's a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the repo. Documentation is a little sparse, however. This is a useful reference: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/brew/Homebrew http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/brew/Homebrew Reading formulas of other software is useful too.
- joshka 9y ago
  https://docs.brew.sh/ https://docs.brew.sh/ has all the details. Reach out on the forums if you run into blockers.
daguava 9y ago
I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.
- fastball 9y ago
  What exactly makes you hate MacOS?
  - daguava 9y ago
    Usability feels like a second hand citizen to me, when it comes to things like window management / snapping. I come from a very windows-heavy background, so I appreciate the shell experience provided by OSX, but really hate the ear-flicks of trying to use multiple apps simultaneously, and snapping between them, positioning them, etc, in an OSX world. To be fair, this could be a training / learn-ability issue that may not be present had I learned OSX first.
    - pingiun 9y ago
      This really is the easiest thing to fix in macOS, just install magnet (in the app store). I does window snapping in all the places, with shortcuts too.
      - fastball 9y ago
        I've also had good luck with Moom.
    - fastball 9y ago
      I see where you're coming from. Hell, I remember using Linux 15 years ago and having better space management than I have in MacOS today. I honestly hate how they nerfed spaces and made it much harder to work with many applications, or on many projects. Just give me project contexts, dammit! Windows is just as bad, if not worse these days though.
    - Walkman 9y ago
      You just buy Moom and problem solved. https://manytricks.com/moom/ https://manytricks.com/moom/
- Ologn 9y ago
  It can have strange behavior though. The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it. This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu. That said, things like iTerm2, Homebrew etc. do make using MacOS somewhat tolerable.
Scarbutt 9y ago
Curious, does homebrew really has "millions of users"?
- tempay 9y ago
  Looking at their analytics[1] a few million seems plausible depending on how updates are included in the numbers. [1] https://brew.sh/analytics/ https://brew.sh/analytics/
gerosa 9y ago
After Docker, I use Homebrew only to install basic tools like git.
- extra88 9y ago
  Why install git from Homebrew? Git is included in macOS. Sometimes the Apple version of a program is outdated or just different but macOS Sierra has git version 2.13.6, less than six months old.
  - daveFNbuck 9y ago
    Installing it from homebrew requires minimal effort and can keep you more up-to-date than the system version. It requires more effort to figure out that the included version is "only" half a year old than to just install a newer version from homebrew.

139 points by joshka 9y ago

Thanks - but us folks at Google still wouldn't employ you, because you know, inverted binary tree tests and all that. K thanx Bye. Back to snarfing all the data. Especially cool since homebrew has homebrew usage analytics, we love to consume that data!

jv22222 9y ago

Thanks for linking to this thanks. And thanks, Homebrew team, for Homebrew. It has saved me countless of hours.

7ewis 9y ago

Is there some documentation on how to contribute?

nerdponx 9y ago
There's a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the repo. Documentation is a little sparse, however. This is a useful reference: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/brew/Homebrew http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/brew/Homebrew Reading formulas of other software is useful too.
joshka 9y ago
https://docs.brew.sh/ https://docs.brew.sh/ has all the details. Reach out on the forums if you run into blockers.

daguava 9y ago

I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.

fastball 9y ago
What exactly makes you hate MacOS?
- daguava 9y ago
  Usability feels like a second hand citizen to me, when it comes to things like window management / snapping. I come from a very windows-heavy background, so I appreciate the shell experience provided by OSX, but really hate the ear-flicks of trying to use multiple apps simultaneously, and snapping between them, positioning them, etc, in an OSX world. To be fair, this could be a training / learn-ability issue that may not be present had I learned OSX first.
  - pingiun 9y ago
    This really is the easiest thing to fix in macOS, just install magnet (in the app store). I does window snapping in all the places, with shortcuts too.
    - fastball 9y ago
      I've also had good luck with Moom.
  - fastball 9y ago
    I see where you're coming from. Hell, I remember using Linux 15 years ago and having better space management than I have in MacOS today. I honestly hate how they nerfed spaces and made it much harder to work with many applications, or on many projects. Just give me project contexts, dammit! Windows is just as bad, if not worse these days though.
  - Walkman 9y ago
    You just buy Moom and problem solved. https://manytricks.com/moom/ https://manytricks.com/moom/
Ologn 9y ago
It can have strange behavior though. The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it. This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu. That said, things like iTerm2, Homebrew etc. do make using MacOS somewhat tolerable.

Scarbutt 9y ago

Curious, does homebrew really has "millions of users"?

tempay 9y ago
Looking at their analytics[1] a few million seems plausible depending on how updates are included in the numbers. [1] https://brew.sh/analytics/ https://brew.sh/analytics/

gerosa 9y ago

After Docker, I use Homebrew only to install basic tools like git.

extra88 9y ago
Why install git from Homebrew? Git is included in macOS. Sometimes the Apple version of a program is outdated or just different but macOS Sierra has git version 2.13.6, less than six months old.
- daveFNbuck 9y ago
  Installing it from homebrew requires minimal effort and can keep you more up-to-date than the system version. It requires more effort to figure out that the included version is "only" half a year old than to just install a newer version from homebrew.