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💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)

161 mentions on Hacker News by 124 people: 12 stories, 149 comments · first 2009-08-31 · latest 2025-04-22

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  1. …("We generally frown on authors submitting their own work unless it is suitably notable." [1]). [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Acceptable-Formula
    comment by mjschultz · 2012-05-14 · in Show HN: c
  2. …are going to do constantly while browsing files, and is something that normally is instantaneous. https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula The reason for this is that the mechanism GitHub is using to supposedly speed up…
    comment by saurik · 2012-05-02 · in Front End Performance Case Study: GitHub
  3. At least the installation script adds some aliases to .bashrc. https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula...
    comment by zellux · 2012-04-19 · in Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal
  4. …grc command aliases commands like 'ping' to a modified command that processes the output[1]. [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/7bbe7e9311ce95a141bf5f...
    comment by moonboots · 2012-04-18 · in Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal
  5. Those are supplied if you source the aliases that ship with the Homebrew formula: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/7bbe7e9311ce95a141bf5f...
    comment by netherland · 2012-04-18 · in Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal
  6. > sudo brew install No sudo. From https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ : > Why does Homebrew say sudo is bad? > tl;dr Sudo is dangerous, and you installed TextMate.app without sudo anyway. > Homebrew is designed to work without using…
    comment by philwelch · 2012-04-15 · in Show HN: Rails One Click Installer for Mac Os X
  7. …will improve still. About 70% on this topic recommended MacBooks. Last year, it'd been 50%. [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
    comment by pooriaazimi · 2012-04-01 · in Ask HN: What is the best laptop on the market for programming right now?
  8. …as I didn't shout very loudly people don't realise that it exists. For example Qt has a bottle: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula... The reason we aren't doing this for more packages is basically people power and…
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2012-02-17 · in Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew
  9. …software[1] (anything that expects `gcc` to be ordinary gcc stands a chance of breaking anyway) [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Acceptable-Formula
    comment by ConstantineXVI · 2012-02-16 · in Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew
  10. …as I didn't shout very loudly people don't realise that it exists. For example Qt has a bottle: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula... The reason we aren't doing this for more packages is basically people power and…
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2012-02-13 · in Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
  11. …you can always "alias top='top -o cpu'" in your .aliases. [1] http://www.macports.org/ports.php [2] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew [3] http://www.finkproject.org/
    comment by pooriaazimi · 2012-02-04 · in How I Learned to Program
  12. …as a result of upgrading from an older version of Xcode. More information is in the Homebrew issue: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6852
    comment by danieldk · 2012-02-03 · in My Recent Development Stack: OS X Tools
  13. …to do this is with homebrew[1]: brew install gawk [1] If you don't know about homebrew, check out https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew . It's a package manager for Mac.
    comment by masnick · 2011-10-31 · in Aligning your Git logs
  14. Homebrew also updated: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commit/ae9b146fb64cc2db914b... Just brew update and upgrade.
    comment by kenips · 2011-10-30 · in Ruby 1.9.3 released
  15. …up the permissions it's setup. there's a part in their faq about why they believe sudo is bad https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ
    comment by lparry · 2011-10-26 · in GitHub open sources Hubot (chat bot)
  16. …4.2.1 It's a rather important change to GCC on mac, it even broke `brew install mysql` for awhile: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6277 Some great hackers found out it was linking to Apple's internal pthread library. Code-softly…
    comment by RobertLowe · 2011-08-10 · in 2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment
  17. …in the background while you do something else. See here for stuff you can install with one command: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula...
    comment by evilduck · 2011-08-08 · in Return of the Mac (2005)
  18. Since I have your attention temporarily, I figure you should also know about this: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6732 I had errors when I ran `brew update`. Looks like it might hit most people who have installed it recently, so…
    comment by Groxx · 2011-07-31 · in Quick Python/Developer tips for OSX Lion
  19. …just a Ruby project in git so all the packages (or formulas) are just rb files inside the project: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula They usually only provide the most recent stable version of each project but…
    comment by daviddavis · 2011-07-25 · in MacPorts 2.0 with Lion support now available
  20. There are already two pull requests on Homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pulls
    comment by benatkin · 2011-07-20 · in Node v0.4.10 released
  21. …points to http://rack.rubyforge.org/ https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri => http://nokogiri.org/ https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew => http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ https://github.com/joyent/node => http://nodejs.org/ etc, etc. It also…
    comment by stock_toaster · 2011-07-15 · in Code.Google.com now supports git
  22. …1. install homebrew, 2. type `homebrew edit mysql' 3. change 5.5.10 to 5.5.12 4. brew install mysql https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula...
    comment by zbowling · 2011-05-10 · in MySQL 5.5.12 for macports, stay bleeding edge.
  23. …and $HOME/brew/sbin to my $PATH. If you want it in /usr/local, see the instructions at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation , but in the "curl" line, replace their URL with the one you picked above. You should now be able to…
    comment by daxelrod · 2011-05-02 · in Vico Editor (Mac text editor)
  24. …There are a few other reasons they specifically opted for /usr/local instead of other paths here: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation
    comment by wfarr · 2011-01-30 · in Pianobar command-line Pandora client
  25. $ sudo brew Not really necessary - https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation#sudo
    comment by m0shen · 2011-01-17 · in I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me)
  26. …me. Maybe you should give it another shot. Homebrew is the cool kid on the block now, though: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
    comment by steveklabnik · 2011-01-07 · in Finally, Linux on My Desktop
  27. Homebrew is another popular alternative to MacPorts that you may be interested in looking at: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
    comment by tkaemming · 2010-12-25 · in Ask HN: Just got a Mac, what do I need to know?
  28. …get ssh-copy-id through homebrew. (And if you're on OS X and not using homebrew, go install it now: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew )
    comment by jackowayed · 2010-11-24 · in SSH Commands / Tricks
  29. http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew is my project. IMO anyone who is afraid of forking is actually just afraid of losing control. It's much easier now for people to do a better job than you. You have to work harder in order to keep your kudos.…
    comment by mxcl · 2010-11-22 · in Fear of forking
  30. I used macports as well but switched to homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
    comment by klaut · 2010-11-08 · in Ask HN: Do you use a package manager in OSX? If so, which?
  31. …delibar.app for managing delicious and pinboard accounts http://www.delibarapp.com/ brew! https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew Charles.app for misc HTTP lurking and easily repeating HTTP posts (naughty confession: used it to opt-out of AmEx…
    comment by PStamatiou · 2010-11-08 · in Ask HN: What do you use?
  32. …the Scheme side. There's also Nu[2], which lets you do Cocoa programming in a Lispish language. [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew [2] http://programming.nu/index
    comment by msbarnett · 2010-11-05 · in Book review: Land of Lisp
  33. FYI, the Homebrew formula to install CLISP on Mac OS X is at http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/2707 If the formula works well, please comment there and suggest the authors accept my pull request. (If not, I ll be very happy to help.)
    comment by tianyicui · 2010-10-27 · in Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
  34. …postgresql), although it's probably worth noting that I installed them all through Homebrew ( http://www.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/ ).
    comment by tkaemming · 2010-10-13 · in Ask HN: Best Developer Linux Laptop?
  35. …ace up it's sleeve is Homebrew[1]. Definitely the easiest package management system anywhere. [1]: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
    comment by bravo_sierra · 2010-10-02 · in Thank you, Ubuntu
  36. …with web-based services for everything else). I would definitely miss things like Homebrew though: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
    comment by jarin · 2010-09-22 · in Ask HN: Would you work at a startup that requires you to use Linux?
  37. Have you checked out homebrew? Similar to macports/fink except much, much better, available here: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew In particular, their recipe for zsh compilation might help you even if you don't want to install brew itself:…
    comment by ptomato · 2010-09-07 · in Oh My zsh
  38. I'd recommend brew over macports any day of the week. http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew much faster and much more momentum
    comment by iamclovin · 2010-08-20 · in Ask HN: What's your Mac/OSX web development software set-up?
  39. …itself back over time. Homebrew has 2.6.5 in its main branch, and 2.7 in a fork. See the notes here: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/... I've tried Fink, MacPorts, Rudix and Homebrew. Homebrew isn't perfect, but…
    comment by telemachos · 2010-07-05 · in Python 2.7 released
  40. …updating via Sparkle. It ain't exactly rocket surgery. As far as typical unixy tools, homebrew ( http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew ) does a pretty fantastic job.
    comment by ptomato · 2010-05-21 · in How We Built iTeleport into a Profitable Business on the App Store
  41. Homebrew's is crazy too (619 forks): http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/network
    comment by stevelosh · 2010-03-26 · in Bye Bye Flash: GitHub's Network Graph is now Canvas
  42. Not really a command line utility, but rather a programming utility used through the command line: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew I've replaced my MacPorts install with Homebrew and have been pretty happy with it. It's relatively new so…
    comment by po · 2010-03-01 · in Tell HN: Best OS X Utility for programmers who use the command line
  43. Or for those who dislike fink: >brew install wget (readme at http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew ) ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1095793 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840317 )
    comment by fragmede · 2010-02-27 · in How To Install WGET in OSX
  44. C'mon though - you need to meet people half way and read a little. From the Github README ( http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/ ): Here's why you may prefer Homebrew to the alternatives: Zero configuration installation Copy the contents of…
    comment by telemachos · 2010-02-02 · in Homebrew: OS X’s Missing Package Manager
  45. Not true: the following is from mxcl's github README ( http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/ ) - But… don't sudo! Homebrew can be used with or without sudo, but, OS X was designed to minimise sudo use, you only need it occasionally. For…
    comment by telemachos · 2010-02-02 · in Homebrew: OS X’s Missing Package Manager
  46. …macports, but it does feel pretty tacked on. That being said I'm definitely excited about homebrew [ http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew ]. Some initial weekend hacking with it left me happy that it exists and excited about where it is going.…
    comment by cschep · 2009-10-09 · in Ask HN: OSX Package Management
  47. there have been recent developments over an alternative, and http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew seems to be a very nice one. it's still growing, but seems to be a viable alternative to macports
    comment by nudded · 2009-10-09 · in Ask HN: OSX Package Management
  48. That was worth clicking through just to learn about Homebrew ( http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew ). Not sure I'll be leaving MacPorts for it, but it's good to know alternatives exist (and no, fink doesn't count).
    comment by gcv · 2009-09-08 · in The Ultimate OS X Snow Leopard Stack For Rails Development
  49. …to their own folder (eg /usr/local/custom/ruby-1.8.7) and then symlink the binary to /usr/local/bin. http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/ is a package manager that tries to do just that
    comment by nudded · 2009-08-31 · in Compiling Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails on Snow Leopard