install with options

[znz]

I want to brew install with options.
For example, brew install --cocoa emacs.

[jamesaanderson]

I'll work on adding it.

[jamesaanderson]

@andrew @znz Syntax wise I'm thinking something like:

brew 'emacs', '--cocoa'

or

brew 'emacs', args: 'cocoa'

The second would allow us to add version functionality in the future. What do you think?

[andrew]

I prefer the hash-like syntax, as you said, allows for future additional options too.

[znz]

I prefer hash too.
How to pass multiple options?

brew 'emacs', args: 'cocoa srgb with-gnutls'

or

brew 'emacs', args: ['cocoa', 'srgb', 'with-gnutls']

or both?

[jamesaanderson]

@znz I prefer the array

[andrew]

Array looks good to me too

[jamesaanderson]

@znz Sorry. I haven't had time to work on it. Feel free to submit a PR otherwise when I have a chance I'll submit a fix.

[christianbundy]

Hey @znz, just wanted to let you know that you can do this with native homebrew with a Brewfile that looks like:

# This is my brewfile
install emacs --cocoa

You can also read the discussion about this feature if you'd like. Let me know if this suits your needs!

[znz]

Thanks you for your information.
It suits my needs.

[jaredmoody]

Can this be re-opened? Since native homebrew Brewfiles were deprecated, it seems like there's not a way do this. I'd like to use brewdler but need to pass options.

[jamesaanderson]

I'll try and work on this over the weekend

[jaredmoody]

Thanks!

[andrew]

Thanks @jamesaanderson, in future can you open pull requests for changes so people can review the change, cheers!

[andrew]

Can you also add some documentation to the readme.