Create a brew formula

[olekslitus]

It would be great to add brew formula for Mac users.

[David-OConnor]

Would this allow me or someone else to build for Mac without owning one? This is why the Mac binaries are generally out of date.

[olekslitus]

Sadly no. brew is simply a package manager that lets you distribute binaries easily.
I am not sure if it is possible to make brew formula that compiles from source, but I can check if that would be interesting to you.

[David-OConnor]

Thanks for the follow up. Native mac binaries and Brew would be great, but I think as it stands, the best bet for Mac users is to install Rust, then cargo install pyflow.

[branchvincent]

hey @David-OConnor! I hit a small snag trying to create a brew formula. The latest tagged release doesn't include a necessary fix to compile on MacOS: a2bf3ce. Brew understandably disallows new formula that require a patch to build and has asked if we can either:

• Tag a new (unplanned) release with this fix
• Get an idea for when the next release is planned

[branchvincent]

Would this allow me or someone else to build for Mac without owning one? This is why the Mac binaries are generally out of date.

And to answer this, creating a Homebrew formula indeed means that Homebrew's CI will build/distribute binaries for Intel machines on MacOS 10.14/10.15/11 as well as ARM machines on MacOS 11!

And when pyflow has a new release, updating Homebrew's version involves creating a PR that is usually as simple as brew bump-formula-pr pyflow --version=x.y.z (unless any build-related changes occurred). If desired, you could of course integrate this as part of your release process (for example, see GitHub's CLI and starship).

[David-OConnor]

Released as 0.3.0.1

Let me know if the 4-part non-semvar release name causes trouble.

Glad to hear about the easy Mac releases!

[branchvincent]

Thanks for the quick release, you can now brew install pyflow!

[David-OConnor]

Awesome