macOS homebrew package (was: Re: Survex 1.2.36 released)

[Robert Jones]

Hey Olly,

Thanks for posting that. I'm just testing that it builds on OSX 10.14 at
the moment. It's taking a while as homebrew needs to build all dependencies
from source. I'll let you know the outcome.

The only downside of the current 'install from URL' approach is that
there's no version control - homebrew won't check for updates to the
formula.

I suggest for consistency you create a separate git repository on github to
track releases that can be tapped as such:

brew tap ojwb/survex-homebrew
brew install survex

Or installed directly as
brew install ojwb/survex-homebrew/survex

where user is ojwb, and repo might be survex-homebrew

This is documented here:
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/How-to-Create-and-Maintain-a-Tap.md

This does also work hosted outside of github, perhaps on git.survex.com,
but a full URL needs to be specified in the 'tap' command.

It's then just a case of putting the ruby script in a 'Formula' folder.

Regards,

Rob

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 at 13:08, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Rob Jones you can now install Survex on macOS using the
> Homebrew package manager, which provides an easier way to install a
> recent version which we can keep in step with releases.  The disk
> image hasn't been updated since 1.2.27 which is just over 2 years
> old now.
>
> If you don't already use Homebrew, you'll need to install that first.
> Then to install Survex:
>
>   brew update
>   brew install https://survex.com/~olly/survex.rb
>
> The first time you do this it may take a while as it has to install
> all the dependencies first.  Subsequent updates should be faster.
>
> This packaging is fairly new - if you hit any teething problems, please
> report them to the bug tracker or mailing list.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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