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141 mentions on Hacker News by 117 people: 25 stories, 116 comments · first 2016-04-26 · latest 2026-10-28

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  1. …overall interest. It left me not feeling very good about the direction the project is taking. [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/31510
    comment by ComputerGuru · 2019-02-03 · in Homebrew 2.0.0 released
  2. 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
  3. …about it in "postgres" formula[2]. [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/pgupgrade.html [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by ungzd · 2019-01-09 · in Homebrew 1.9.0
  4. …: > 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 up the user-installed flavor of binutil
    comment by Hackbraten · 2019-01-09 · in Homebrew 1.9.0
  5. …always something that requires updating or has many requests. It's a good way to get started. [0] - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
  6. The PR is open here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/29490 Looks like it's waiting for tests to pass at present.
    comment by beaugunderson · 2018-06-28 · in Python 3.7 released
  7. …found for "clozure". Open pull requests: clozure-cl 1.11.5 (restoration of a deleted formula) (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/25768) Looks like the Homebrew formula for CCL was removed.
    comment by susam · 2018-05-10 · in Common Lisp homepage
  8. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... Homebrew pulls it directly from the Python.org, but it's also slightly opinionated in what else it installs. I would suggest just reading through the formula to see what it…
    comment by evilduck · 2018-04-30 · in Python Environment
  9. …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 technologies for building, installing, upgrading, and configuring…
    comment by pxc · 2018-04-28 · in Installing Fonts Using Homebrew
  10. …-> ../Cellar/python/3.6.5/bin/python3 [1] https://brew.sh/2018/04/09/homebrew-1.6.0/ [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/24812 [3] https://discourse.brew.sh/t/python-and-pep-394/1813 [4]…
  11. ▲ 2
    Homebrew core does not accept signed binaries
    story by zabil · 2018-03-19 · 2 comments
  12. ▲ 2
    Tell HN: Homebrew base python formula now Python3
    story by falcolas · 2018-03-07 · 0 comments
  13. ▲ 2
    Python 3 migration prevents access to system Python
    story by comex · 2018-03-03 · 1 comment
  14. Better link with discussion of PR would be — https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/24604
  15. ▲ 2
    Homebrew “python” formula migrates to Python3
    story by lisnake · 2018-03-02 · 1 comment
  16. ▲ 3
    Homebrew python3 – python
    story by maguowei · 2018-03-02 · 1 comment
  17. …history. Just to make sure I wasn't nuts I had to check my notes and found the original commit: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/77aa909188b... . Apparently there's been some history rewriting that I don't quite understand.
    comment by dancek · 2018-02-13 · in Who is the longest-serving programmer?
  18. Agreed. Link to source for the curious/lazy: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/cmd/br...
    comment by rattray · 2018-01-19 · in Homebrew 1.5.0
  19. Thanks but .. $ brew search alacritty .... Closed pull requests: alacritty HEAD (new formula) (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/8727)
    comment by emmelaich · 2017-12-25 · in Computer latency: 1977-2017
  20. …of changing it. Updating homebrew, new formulas, etc, is nothing more than a `git pull`. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul...
    comment by jameskilton · 2017-12-11 · in Homebrew 1.4.0
  21. Based on this[1] it appears to be running this[2] bootstrap script, which I believe uses make. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/bootstrap.bash
    comment by saagarjha · 2017-10-05 · in Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released
  22. …it's in progress. IIRC brew pulls from Git(hub) directly, so, I guess as soon as this is merged: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/19000
    comment by colemickens · 2017-10-04 · in Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released
  23. Have a look and see if any of the packages you use regularly are on their 10.13 issues list: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/18493
    comment by robin_reala · 2017-09-25 · in MacOS High Sierra
  24. …wrong place. Install the homebrew version, it has 3 patches for macOS that aren't in the upstream. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by trapperkeeper74 · 2017-09-24 · in APFS – A Backup Software Developer’s Perspective
  25. …search g https://github.com/%s "g upspin/upspin" to jump to https://github.com/upspin/upspin.git br https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... read homebrew formula c https://caniuse.com/#search=%s
    comment by shpx · 2017-09-21 · in DuckDuckGo vs Google
  26. Looks like 1.0.1 is available now - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/17780 .
  27. …Seems like it was removed in this version bump [1] — I'll open a PR adding it back in. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/13676
    comment by Pewqazz · 2017-08-04 · in Exa, a modern replacement for ls
  28. > And the amount of actual data needed to store issues is peanuts anyway. It’s not. Take something like github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core. There are 15k closed PRs there. There have been 20 new ones today. It’s not rare to have 10-20…
    comment by hk__2 · 2017-08-01 · in GitHub was down
  29. You can `brew install ammonite` too https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by lihaoyi · 2017-05-26 · in Ammonite: Scala Scripting
  30. The brew formula is here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... url "https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.8.src.tar.gz" mirror "https://fossies.org/linux/misc/go1.8.src.tar.gz" version "1.8" sha256…
    comment by fnord123 · 2017-03-22 · in How I Start: Go (2014)
  31. At least until you try to open up https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul... :)
    comment by timdorr · 2017-02-14 · in Python moved to GitHub
  32. The pull request is up: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/9238 Should be merged within 24 hours or so.
    comment by apetresc · 2017-01-24 · in Wine 2.0 released
  33. …https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P... ), Homebrew (example Formula https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... ), Slackware (example https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/development/avr-gcc.…
    comment by ploxiln · 2016-12-16 · in How to make Linux more trustworthy
  34. relevant discussion here https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/6677
    comment by thedaniel · 2016-11-07 · in Homebrew 1.1.0
  35. PSD support is now disabled by default in GM apparently: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/6072#issuec...
    comment by olalonde · 2016-10-29 · in GraphicsMagick Image Processing System
  36. Coming soon to Homebrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/5832
  37. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/.githu... Is a better link. It would just be a new formula in homebrew-core
  38. …homebrew[1]. You'll have to build it yourself with gcc since it can't be compiled with clang. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/369
  39. …/usr/local/Cellar/gcal/4 (81 files, 2.8M) * Poured from bottle on 2016-01-13 at 17:03:09 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/gcal.rb ==> Dependencies Build: xz 2016 April May June Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo…
    comment by res0nat0r · 2016-05-11 · in Cal – Display a Calendar in Your Terminal
  40. For posterity, this was merged in https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/b8b57c76523...
    comment by rattray · 2016-04-27 · in Node.js v6.0 Released
  41. Looks like there is not yet a Homebrew PR: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pulls Current formula still points to v5.11: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... EDIT: PR created:…
    comment by rattray · 2016-04-26 · in Node.js v6.0 Released