top | item 45909227 (no title) valicord | 3 months ago if it's an open source project, why is it using a cask anyway? it should be a formula that builds from source directly discuss order hn newest nixpulvis|3 months ago I don't know much about macOS these days, but I was under the impression that Casks were for applications, and normal formula were for things installed in your PATH as standalone binaries. The .app needs a few extra things bundled up.EDIT:I looked it up, the issue is that homebrew explicitly doesn't want .app formulas: https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae#stuff-that-builds-a...IDK what they expect. Every open source application developer needs to pay $99/yr now?I mean you can always get the DMG from the releases on GitHub, so I guess we can just point people there and abandon homebrew. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases paradox460|3 months ago Mise can install things directly from GitHub
nixpulvis|3 months ago I don't know much about macOS these days, but I was under the impression that Casks were for applications, and normal formula were for things installed in your PATH as standalone binaries. The .app needs a few extra things bundled up.EDIT:I looked it up, the issue is that homebrew explicitly doesn't want .app formulas: https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae#stuff-that-builds-a...IDK what they expect. Every open source application developer needs to pay $99/yr now?I mean you can always get the DMG from the releases on GitHub, so I guess we can just point people there and abandon homebrew. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases paradox460|3 months ago Mise can install things directly from GitHub
nixpulvis|3 months ago
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I looked it up, the issue is that homebrew explicitly doesn't want .app formulas: https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae#stuff-that-builds-a...
IDK what they expect. Every open source application developer needs to pay $99/yr now?
I mean you can always get the DMG from the releases on GitHub, so I guess we can just point people there and abandon homebrew. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases
paradox460|3 months ago