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does homebrew still* use Github as the store for all packages? Just curious, that always seemed like a strange scenario. * or am I wrong that it ever did?

jameskilton 9y ago
"Packages" in homebrew are nothing more than Ruby install files called Formulas[1]. So using Github works really well for their use case and I don't think there is any thought of changing it. Updating homebrew, new formulas, etc, is nothing more than a `git pull`. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formula https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul...
- FooBarWidget 9y ago
  Not quite. They also supply precompiled binaries nowadays, one version of each supported macOS version. They have a CI infrastructure that continuously builds precompiled binaries for all formulas, for all supported macOS versions.
  - jameskilton 9y ago
    Right, those binaries are hosted in Bintray (http://homebrew.bintray.com/ http://homebrew.bintray.com/)
    - diggan 9y ago
      Is there any facilities for mirroring this or this "belongs" to bintray? Torrents, magnet links, rsync server or something like that. You would think `wget` for building your own mirror would work fine but no, http://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/ http://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/ returns "Forbidden", probably because the directory listing is too large.
  - cuckcuckspruce 9y ago
    There is an environment variable you can set to force building from source if you do not want to rely on bottled binaries.
stevenwoo 9y ago
Both Cocoapods and Homebrew are pretty big on github. The previous cocoapods article comments mention this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245652
dwc 9y ago
They moved their heavy stuff to bintray, which is a better fit.
thomastjeffery 9y ago
I don't know about homebrew, but Nix does (not binaries, though). https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

jameskilton 9y ago

"Packages" in homebrew are nothing more than Ruby install files called Formulas[1]. So using Github works really well for their use case and I don't think there is any thought of changing it. Updating homebrew, new formulas, etc, is nothing more than a `git pull`. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formula https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul...

FooBarWidget 9y ago
Not quite. They also supply precompiled binaries nowadays, one version of each supported macOS version. They have a CI infrastructure that continuously builds precompiled binaries for all formulas, for all supported macOS versions.
- jameskilton 9y ago
  Right, those binaries are hosted in Bintray (http://homebrew.bintray.com/ http://homebrew.bintray.com/)
  - diggan 9y ago
    Is there any facilities for mirroring this or this "belongs" to bintray? Torrents, magnet links, rsync server or something like that. You would think `wget` for building your own mirror would work fine but no, http://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/ http://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/ returns "Forbidden", probably because the directory listing is too large.
- cuckcuckspruce 9y ago
  There is an environment variable you can set to force building from source if you do not want to rely on bottled binaries.

stevenwoo 9y ago

Both Cocoapods and Homebrew are pretty big on github. The previous cocoapods article comments mention this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245652

dwc 9y ago

They moved their heavy stuff to bintray, which is a better fit.

thomastjeffery 9y ago

I don't know about homebrew, but Nix does (not binaries, though). https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs