Re: Update Hombrew install instructions on the web site

Björn Pollex wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply. IÂ’ve checked, and both */usr/local/bin/gpg* 
> and */opt/gtk/bin/gtk-demo* exist. I havenÂ’t looked into this further 
> yet, because I actually only use the CLI anyway.

Well, at least the installer worked then. Basically all it does is 
download the other two .pkg packages from the Zero Install sourceforge site.

> IÂ’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 
> wonÂ’t be investigating further. Apart from that, the installation 
> instructions for Homebrew are still incorrect on the home page.

Not sure what the correct instructions would be, as long it is not 
"blessed" for inclusion... Provide a fork with a 0install 2.8 formula 
perhaps ?
Then the user could do a "brew tap" to add the repository, much like you 
can add a "PPA" in Ubuntu. The opam deps are still an issue though.

I think the solution with prompting the user about gpg/gpg2 and opam is 
rather poor. Prefer just using old gpg, and a local $OPAMROOT for build.
It shouldn't be impossible to make a new formula, and then put a bottle 
of it up on bintray. I can make a stab at it, if noone else does before me.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/brew-tap.md

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Bottles.md


Or we give up on brew, and continue with the stand-alone solution.

--anders

PS. Old formula, for reference:
https://github.com/afb/homebrew/blob/10f049e24eea9273916721b37b9a31bfd4ac6748/Library/Formula/zeroinstall.rb


> On 7 Jul 2015, at 14:33, Anders F Björklund <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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 donÂ’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 donÂ’t know why the GTK+ dependency is missing. Cask only executes 
>>> the packager installer, so maybe that installer doesnÂ’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 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 ?

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