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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. …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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. …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
  8. 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
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    Homebrew is a new package management system for OS X based on git + ruby
    story by blasdel · 2009-09-23 · 46 comments
  10. 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
  11. …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