Re: Update Hombrew install instructions on the web site

Anders,

Sorry for the late reply. I’ve checked, and both /usr/local/bin/gpg and /opt/gtk/bin/gtk-demo exist. I haven’t looked into this further yet, because I actually only use the CLI anyway.

I’m not really experienced with these installer issues, but if I can be of any further help, please let me know. For, it works for me, so I won’t be investigating further. Apart from that, the installation instructions for Homebrew are still incorrect on the home page.

Cheers,

	Björn

> On 7 Jul 2015, at 14:33, Anders F Björklund <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Björn Pollex wrote:
>>> I tried the homebrew instructions on OS X Yosemite, and there
>>> doesn't seem to be anything *majorly* wrong with it afaict... ?
>>> 
>>> $ brew install gettext pkg-config gnupg gtk+ ocaml opam
>>> 
>>> $ opam install yojson xmlm ounit react lwt extlib ssl ocurl lablgtk
>>> 
>> These are not the Homebrew installation instructions, these are the Source installation instructions. The current web site has a separate section further down titled Homebrew installation, which contains instructions that don’t work anymore because the recipe for 0install has been removed from homebrew, as you have pointed out previously. Cask <http://caskroom.io/> is a command extension for Homebrew that can be used to install Mac OS X native packages. The main repo for casks is separate from homebrew.
> 
> Ah, you are correct. Sadly it was rejected, so it needs to either be cherry-picked or put into a separate repository or something - neither of which helps much with providing a binary bottle I guess. It's an option, but then "someone else" needs to provide those (github/bintray).
> 
> I wrote a lot of different installation instructions, and seem to be confusing even myself. :-)
> 
> Apparently homebrew-cask just calls "sudo installer -pkg *.pkg -target /", which is pretty normal and the same command that we describe - so wonder what went wrong. You could check if /usr/local/bin/gpg and /opt/gtk/bin/gtk-demo ended up in the usual places, maybe try them separately ?
> 
> Anyway, this Cask thing seems to rather different from Homebrew - more of a fork, really.
> 
>> I don’t know why the GTK+ dependency is missing. Cask only executes the packager installer, so maybe that installer doesn’t install the dependency?
> 
> The GnuPG and PyGTK packages are separate, but the ZeroInstall package is supposed to download them and install them unless you "uncheck" the optional dependencies - theory being that you already installed them, the last time around. Mostly to cut down on the download size, but also for licensing.
> 
> But http://macpkg.sourceforge.net <http://macpkg.sourceforge.net/> is getting a bit old, and I plan on retiring it. The universal packages are built for Mac OS X 10.6, and needs updating. And then comes GnuPG 2 and GTK+ 3 mudding the waters further. Probably easier to just do a packaging for 0install, and ship it under the GPL instead ?
> 
>> As a test I’ve uninstalled 0install and downloaded the Bundle from the web site <http://0install.net/install-osx.html>. When I try to run it Mac OS (I’m on 10.10.4) says it is damaged and can’t be executed. I don’t know why it works with Cask, which is essentially doing the same thing. I’d love to help resolve this, so please let me know what I can do. I’m currently learning 0install and will probably come back with more questions over the next few weeks.
> 
> I'm thinking that it needs a new build only for 10.9 and later, which also enables ditching 32-bit. There's always the option of going back to plain old tarballs. Just that there quite a lot of them, for everything ?
> 
> We have the "Darwin-x86_64" ones on http://0install.net/tools/0install.xml <http://0install.net/tools/0install.xml> ("generic binaries"), but then you need to provide gnupg/gtk+. We tried (and failed) with fink/port/brew, and pkg isn't too much fun...
> 
> --anders
> 
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