digitalmars.D - Homebrew formula: build from sources, betas, git head
- =?UTF-8?B?Ikx1w61z?= Marques" (37/37) Nov 27 2013 (context: homebrew is a very nice package installer for OS X. It
- Orvid King (7/45) Nov 27 2013 Well, I was actually thinking about creating them at some point,
- Andrew Edwards (3/9) Nov 27 2013 Not sure who is maintaining the brew but it is already being done. To
- =?UTF-8?B?Ikx1w61z?= Marques" (5/7) Nov 27 2013 Yes, there is already a homebrew formula that installs dmd and
(context: homebrew is a very nice package installer for OS X. It is, IMO, the easiest way to install dmd and related utilities in OS X, and should probably be mentioned/recommended in the downloads page) Is anyone here proficient with homebrew formulas? The current formula for DMD is only able to install the binaries (which is not very usual for homebrew, AFAIK). Being able to install from sources (--build-from-source) would be nice, not just to support --devel (e.g., the beta versions, which could also be supplied as binaries) but also --HEAD, which would build the git master branch. Adding support for those options is important, because they allow one to: - easily install and uninstall the beta versions, and quickly change between several versions (they are cached). These betas tend to not see as much field testing as one/Walter would like before they become a non-beta release, so this would help. Adding a tag like "latest-beta" to the git repo would allow one to build from sources the latest beta, even if the homebrew formula was out of date (e.g., it did not specify the latest beta binaries, or a specific beta version tag, like v2.064beta4). - easily install the git head version. Homebrew makes this much easier than following the instruction at http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD#Posix, by cloning the repo automatically, building the binaries/libs (which would be fat binaries, unlike the wiki instructions), installing, creating dmd.conf, etc. Support for this option would make evaluating dmd/phobos/druntime bugs much easier ("does it still reproduce in git head?"). You can also access the cloned repo and do your changes from there, so it lowers the barrier to casual contributions even more. So, is anyone here proficient with homebrew formulas? Anyone willing to take this task? If no one volunteers, I'll try to do it when I find the time, but I'm not very proficient with homebrew formulas/Ruby, and homebrew's documentation has always been lacking, IMO. So, if someone is comfortable with homebrew your help would be very welcome.
Nov 27 2013
On Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 02:54:27 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:(context: homebrew is a very nice package installer for OS X. It is, IMO, the easiest way to install dmd and related utilities in OS X, and should probably be mentioned/recommended in the downloads page) Is anyone here proficient with homebrew formulas? The current formula for DMD is only able to install the binaries (which is not very usual for homebrew, AFAIK). Being able to install from sources (--build-from-source) would be nice, not just to support --devel (e.g., the beta versions, which could also be supplied as binaries) but also --HEAD, which would build the git master branch. Adding support for those options is important, because they allow one to: - easily install and uninstall the beta versions, and quickly change between several versions (they are cached). These betas tend to not see as much field testing as one/Walter would like before they become a non-beta release, so this would help. Adding a tag like "latest-beta" to the git repo would allow one to build from sources the latest beta, even if the homebrew formula was out of date (e.g., it did not specify the latest beta binaries, or a specific beta version tag, like v2.064beta4). - easily install the git head version. Homebrew makes this much easier than following the instruction at http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD#Posix, by cloning the repo automatically, building the binaries/libs (which would be fat binaries, unlike the wiki instructions), installing, creating dmd.conf, etc. Support for this option would make evaluating dmd/phobos/druntime bugs much easier ("does it still reproduce in git head?"). You can also access the cloned repo and do your changes from there, so it lowers the barrier to casual contributions even more. So, is anyone here proficient with homebrew formulas? Anyone willing to take this task? If no one volunteers, I'll try to do it when I find the time, but I'm not very proficient with homebrew formulas/Ruby, and homebrew's documentation has always been lacking, IMO. So, if someone is comfortable with homebrew your help would be very welcome.Well, I was actually thinking about creating them at some point, because currently I just have a small bash script that updates my local repos, builds and installs using the posix makefile, then makes a couple of changes to the default dmd.conf, due to the fact I'm using the posix makefile, and using homebrew to do that would be a lot easier for most.
Nov 27 2013
On 11/27/13, 10:37 PM, Orvid King wrote:Well, I was actually thinking about creating them at some point, because currently I just have a small bash script that updates my local repos, builds and installs using the posix makefile, then makes a couple of changes to the default dmd.conf, due to the fact I'm using the posix makefile, and using homebrew to do that would be a lot easier for most.Not sure who is maintaining the brew but it is already being done. To install dmd all you need to do is "brew install dmd".
Nov 27 2013
=?UTF-8?B?Ikx1w61z?= Marques" <luis luismarques.eu> On Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 03:46:39 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:Not sure who is maintaining the brew but it is already being done. To install dmd all you need to do is "brew install dmd".Yes, there is already a homebrew formula that installs dmd and rdmd from the binaries, but that formula does not support installing from sources (and thus from git head).
Nov 27 2013