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It's comments like this one that cause these feelings : https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-65...

comment by renaudg · 2020-11-20 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

…you can track their progress. The "Major blockers" section lists go, rust, gcc, and others. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by sohooo · 2020-11-19 · in M1 Macs Review

…puts user experience on par with maintainers’s well-being. Examples off the top of my head: [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9172#issuecomment-7299... [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177#issuecomment-72... [3]:…

comment by Hackbraten · 2020-11-19 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

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story by _ozde · 2020-11-18 · 0 comments

…occurred to me that I've never donated despite using it so much but now I have. Link for others: https://github.com/homebrew/brew#donations

comment by frakkingcylons · 2020-11-18 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

…all I got was python3 and git. But no python3.8, no ffmpeg, no erlang, no gnutls, and on and on. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by teilo · 2020-11-18 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

It doesn’t look like it’s fully baked yet. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by macintux · 2020-11-18 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

…about being blocked. There are many comments which come across to me as passive-aggressive such as https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/5675#issuecomment-46... or the last para at https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/5654#issuecomment…

comment by Doctor_Fegg · 2020-11-14 · in Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machine for a Backend dev?

…listed as ‘check again when XYZ is fixed’ may themselves have issues that can’t yet be discovered. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by floatingatoll · 2020-11-13 · in Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon

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story by r2b2 · 2020-11-12 · 0 comments

For native packages, see our tracking issue: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by Hackbraten · 2020-11-12 · in Will the new MBP work natively with Docker, Ubuntu, Node, ect?

…like Adobe CC etc, and also it will take a while for some dev environments to be fully supported ( https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 for example shows it will take some time to get to feature parity). Overall though a lot of the…

comment by armincerf · 2020-11-12 · in Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

…already with all the buzz surroubding ARM nowadays. For reference the github issue tracking page: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by hrktb · 2020-11-11 · in Apple's Shifting Differentiation

…to set limits to keep their sanity. It's just a bummer that I'm considering migrating again... [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/4334#issuecomment-4029... EDIT: remove unnecessary bits; add forgotten link

comment by ilikepi · 2020-08-13 · in Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks

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story by anubhavcodes · 2020-07-16 · 0 comments

Related: ongoing compatibility table compiled by the Homebrew team: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 . (Please respect the team and refrain from polluting the thread. If in doubt check the comments marked off topic.)

comment by oefrha · 2020-07-13 · in Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple Silicon while compiling

This is hardly new. The page you're linking has been in their Github since Oct 2018. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

comment by NeckBeardPrince · 2019-12-19 · in Show HN: Homebrew now auto enables analytics

This is not new, it's been around since 2016: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/1238c65ba14831bc571c...

comment by laurent123456 · 2019-11-27 · in Homebrew 2.2

…it. On MacOS they rely on sandbox-exec which uses the sandboxing mechanism provided by the kernel: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/e2c76cce8e01fd80e0910d... https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre...

comment by brianpgordon · 2019-11-10 · in Curl to shell isn't so bad

…and scripts are supposedly downloaded from GitHub. With supposedly anonymous user analytics: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

comment by dmitriid · 2019-11-09 · in Curl to shell isn't so bad

…and we’re nowhere near the end. Sad to see you go though! Happy to welcome you back anytime. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/142#issuecomment-214... [2]: https://twitter.com/MacHomebrew/status/1119288776830926850 [3]:…

comment by Hackbraten · 2019-04-30 · in Thoughts on macOS Package Managers

…tracker, and the state of it. Endless snark about "we don't support old versions". Fun like this: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/5675#issuecomment-46... It's a good tool, just don't expect any support with it, ever. I kind of feel…

comment by Doctor_Fegg · 2019-04-30 · in Thoughts on macOS Package Managers

…more. It is limited by network speed, not by string searching. Edit: explained better here: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/3056#issuecomment-32...

comment by bjoli · 2019-04-19 · in Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source

Also: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/5514 - No more HOMEBREW_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE

comment by ChrisCinelli · 2019-03-04 · in Brew stopped accepting custom options for packages and installing from source

…decide how to prioritize our work. It’s also literally the opposite of quietly enabled [1] [2]. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/e32c1515432a938093d5ef... [2] https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics

comment by Hackbraten · 2019-02-07 · in Homebrew 2.0.0 released

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/4864 The comment that Mike edited is the last one. Clicking on the "edited by MikeMcQuiad" allows you to see the different versions.

comment by Hamuko · 2019-02-03 · in Homebrew 2.0.0 released

Yeh, we did: - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/35169 - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/5390

comment by mikemcquaid · 2019-01-09 · in Homebrew 1.9.0

…man page [1] on GitHub and apparently the environment variable to set is: HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Manpage.md

comment by paultopia · 2019-01-09 · in Homebrew 1.9.0

From https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/5383 : > This would have avoided Homebrew/homebrew-core#34754 which links to: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/34754 tl;dr One user had binutils force-linked, causing cmake to pick…

comment by Hackbraten · 2019-01-09 · in Homebrew 1.9.0

…on an extension level. Homebrew also has it included with a pretty good description why I think: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

comment by dewey · 2018-08-30 · in Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

…package is not officially supported, according to this comment from an apparent Apple employee: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/4334#issuecomment-4029... . I'm sure it'll be fine and there will be growing pains as with all OS…

comment by jonchang · 2018-07-16 · in Homebrew 1.7.0

…management tools I think it would be helpful here to distinguish Homebrew-as-package-manager ( https://github.com/Homebrew/brew ) from Homebrew-as-repository ( https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core ). As a technology or stack of…

comment by pxc · 2018-04-28 · in Installing Fonts Using Homebrew

Your first statement is misleading. It is not trivially associated to your IP. See: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre... https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...…

comment by rhencke · 2018-04-08 · in Anonymous Aggregate User Behaviour Analytics (2016)

…. We also have symbol support for Ruby and many other languages, see https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/Homebrew/brew and symbol search screen recording https://cl.ly/0p2a131B3r04 . -- Linda, PM @ Sourcegraph

comment by lindax · 2018-03-13 · in Sourcegraph Server 2.6: Symbol search for 75+ languages

…Commands Manual SANDBOX-EXEC(1) NAME sandbox-exec -- execute within a sandbox (DEPRECATED) [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre...

comment by lloeki · 2018-02-11 · in Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing

Writing a formula is pretty straight forward [1]. Just submit a PR to homebrew. 1. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Formula-Co...

comment by michaelmcmillan · 2018-01-31 · in GRV – Git Repository Viewer

> Where's the tip jar? here: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/3568/files#diff-04c6e9...

comment by draugadrotten · 2018-01-19 · in Homebrew 1.5.0

…was an announcement[0] a couple of years ago that certainly provoked a lot of debate on HN[1]. [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11566720

comment by jdmnd · 2017-12-11 · in Homebrew 1.4.0

…- Apache license - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco Homebrew (for Mac) - BSD license - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew Scoop (as previously mentioned) - Public Domain - https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop Comparing Scoop to…

comment by lstamour · 2017-11-27 · in Telerik gets Fiddler unlisted from Chocolatey

…check boxes on compliance requirements, not to provide any provide actual anonymity to users. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/fd4fe3b80cab9902437016... [2] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en

comment by pdkl95 · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

They use Google Analytics. Here's there post about it https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... There are also instructions on how to opt-out.

comment by lamlam · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

…build an old formula for compatibility reasons, but all prior work is available for reference. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/How-to-Cre...

comment by woodruffw · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

…those considerations a little bit more transparent. Edit: I've created a PR to fix the language: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/3120

comment by woodruffw · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

…codebase, written the day this feature was released. # disable homebrew from tracking metrics # see https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.md HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1

comment by teej · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

…option - out of date. > Homebrew's analytics are accessible to Homebrew's current maintainers. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... Yeah, I know, my tinfoil hat is quite elaborate. EDIT: Like I said, my tinfoil…

comment by falcolas · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

…contributing to opensource. Now I'm doing Google Summer of Code under the same organization. [1] https://github.com/homebrew/brew

comment by xz0r · 2017-07-21 · in Ask HN: How do you invite contributors to contribute on your project?

…has installed in Homebrew, poses any meaningful risk to me. That said, if you feel otherwise, see https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... on how to make Homebrew not send analytics data any more.

comment by throwanem · 2017-07-09 · in A JavaScript browser library fails due to an adblocker blacklisting 'beacon.js'

That one is actually documented in their repository: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

comment by vbrandl · 2017-07-09 · in A JavaScript browser library fails due to an adblocker blacklisting 'beacon.js'

Its explained at the very beginning of README :) https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Formula-Co...

comment by xz0r · 2017-05-01 · in Homebrew 1.2.0

…the latest installable package, and not the version you actually have installed. Also things like: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/2402 It tries to do too much and ends up being a never ending surprise from hell. (The solution to…

comment by gonyea · 2017-04-15 · in What the Hackintosh community wants in the new modular Mac Pro