Homebrew Formula about cli

[kytrinyx]

+1000

I'll start looking into this.

[kytrinyx]

A few things suggest that this is not going to fly:

1. They won't include a binary-only install: Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#24469
2. If we do a full install that includes building the thing, they need to install go, which is just a huge and unnecessary dependency.
3. They frown on authors submitting their own stuff, so they're unlikely to accept a pull request from me.

I think it would be far easier to do something like what http://pow.cx does - a simple install script that can be piped directly through sh.

$ curl cli.exercism.io/install | sh

What do you think?

[fuadsaud]

They had the same problem with ngrok (I'm on the phone, will try to post link later). They decided to just bottle it (binary install) to avoid installing go. Whay happens is that uou have to tap a difderent repository to get access to bottled builds. I would still try going this way, cause I think having homebrew install is a huge win on usability field, but I'm cool with an install script (that would help people using different os'es and linux flavours too).—
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On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Katrina Owen [email protected]
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A few things suggest that this is not going to fly:

1. They won't include a binary-only install: Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#24469
2. If we do a full install that includes building the thing, they need to install go, which is just a huge and unnecessary dependency.
3. They frown on authors submitting their own stuff, so they're unlikely to accept a pull request from me.
   I think it would be far easier to do something like what http://pow.cx does - a simple install script that can be piped directly through sh.

$ curl cli.exercism.io/install | sh

What do you think?

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[kytrinyx]

I put in a pull request for the homebrew binary tap:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-binary/pull/38

And I wrote a first attempt at an install script that would work on linux and mac: http://cli.exercism.io/install

[fuadsaud]

Whoa, nice. I'm not sure about the $HOME/bin part, as I don't know if that's such a common convention, but in general it looks pretty good. Thanks!

[kytrinyx]

Yeah, I think the $HOME/bin thing will be replaced with an interactive prompt asking where to put it.

[Tonkpils]

@kytrinyx This could be closed correct? https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-binary/pull/81 was merged.

[kytrinyx]

Good catch. Yes, it's been merged.

[fuadsaud]

Nice, thanks.