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Show HN: Brewlet – The Missing Menulet for Brew.sh
- zzada 6y agoHi, I'm the author of this project. I created this because I always found myself unaware of the state of my brew packages (e.g. how many need to updated, what versions are they on, should I update them?), and I had to manually type in some commands. I decided a simple menulet (or menu bar app) can serve as a minimalistic UI for this simple interaction. With it, I can get a notification when new packages are available or just glance at its icon. It has the core functionality I want now, but sense that it could still be improved. So, any feedback in terms of UX, ideas, new functionality, etc are welcome. Thanks!
- Frank3K 6y agoIt would be nice if you could actually install it using brew.
- zzada 6y agoThanks for the input. I was planning on doing that, but I read in their documentation that they may reject apps that are "not notable enough" and without enough stars on GitHub[1]. So I'm waiting a bit before actually submitting that pull request. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/doc/faq/rejected_casks.md https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/doc/fa...
- DenseComet 6y agoIt might be cool to just create a tap for now. Afaik a tap can be as minimal as a git repo with the .rb package definition file, which you will have to write at some point anyways.