Distribute on Homebrew?

[Ashton-W]

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[orta]

IMO, good idea.

[JFKingsley]

If nobody else has started with this I can push a formula in a few mins.

[supermarin]

@JFKingsley if you can make one in a Gist but not push it yet, that'd be awesome

[JFKingsley]

@supermarin Forked homebrew so I could do some isolated testing, got the install working down pat, however since it doesn't seem you can't run stuff on uninstall i'm having a hard time rm -rf'ing the plugin/extras off the system.

[supermarin]

I guess you can clone ATZ in Cellar or wherever Brew clones stuff, and symlink in ~/Library.... instead of cloning there.

When uninstalling, you'd unlink then

[JFKingsley]

Yeah, that would probably work, might need to play around, but the premise is sound.

Let me have a crack at that now, see if it pulls off the desired effect.

[JFKingsley]

Okay @supermarin, got something. Symlinked, works on install/uninstall, all pretty :3

https://gist.github.com/JFKingsley/f4e126f4d631959e91a2

[Ashton-W]

👍

[JFKingsley]

Updated the gist to now use File.join everywhere. Anyone want to test this on their machine to confirm it works?

[JFKingsley]

Ping @Ashton-W @supermarin

[Ashton-W]

Worked for me and passed brew audit. Haven't played with formulae before so I could be missing something.

[supermarin]

@JFKingsley thanks for your work on this, you're awesome!

The only concern I have here is - this is a binary distribution.
Homebrew doesn't like to accept these, so we'd probably need to end up with a brew tap.

Either that or trying to make a formula that fetches & compiles Alcatraz w/ xcodebuild

[Ashton-W]

I forked it to use ruby methods instead of system like in homebrew/wiki/Formula-Cookbook

https://gist.github.com/Ashton-W/aec58c6fb08f933bb01c could be further rubyfied

[JFKingsley]

Nice work @Ashton-W!

@supermarin: Well, I could do a version that builds alcatraz if you can specify the build process?

[supermarin]

make build is all you need to execute :)
It'll copy the plugin by itself. I'm only thinking how to uninstall it, but FileUtils.rm_rf should work IMO

[Ashton-W]

Do we have source releases?

[supermarin]

FileUtils.rm_rf '~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins/Alcatraz.xcplugin'

or

FileUtils.rm_rf File.join(Dir.home, 'Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins/Alcatraz.xcplugin')

[supermarin]

@Ashton-W each release is tagged. take a look at the Releases tab.

EDIT: there's also deploy branch that we're currently using for dogfooded update

[Ashton-W]

I meant as a link to a tarball, and you are right there is one.

[JFKingsley]

Okay then, so if @Ashton-W is okay i'll see what I can do to work on a self-building formula.

[Ashton-W]

homebrew/wiki/Formula-Cookbook#wiki-build-toolchain-selection has a good example of xcode building with checks for xcode being installed

@JFKingsley I'm always OK, go ahead

[JFKingsley]

So @supermarin, "make build" throws this shiz. https://gist.github.com/JFKingsley/9521044

[Ashton-W]

I get that locally too, removing xcpretty from the Makefile builds for me (with xcpretty not installed)

I've been playing with the Makefile to make xcpretty used iff installed, i'll post a gist when its working

[Ashton-W]

https://gist.github.com/Ashton-W/9521888

[JFKingsley]

That's perfect, only thing is i'm pulling the 1.0.4 tar gz so that makefile isn't in there.

[JFKingsley]

In fact, can we allow people to specify an optional path to copy the plugin to instead of the Xcode plugin folder?

[Ashton-W]

It's up to @supermarin how we deal with the xcpretty dependency.

An environment variable could be used to override the install path, but I wonder if we are complicating things to fit in with Homebrew.

[JFKingsley]

Mhm. To be honest I think I'll probably just ditch using the makefile and do all the commands inside the formula. I'll knock up a new version once my macbook is back in working order, been playing up with memory consumption recently so it's in for a check up at the Apple store for a day.

[supermarin]

@JFKingsley yeah that makes sense.

Doing just xcodebuild -project Alcatraz.xcodeproj build should be enough

[JFKingsley]

Apparently not. Throws a bunch of errors about not being able to sign it

[supermarin]

oh that makes sense, maybe you need to be a member of OSX developer program

[JFKingsley]

Yes, but not every person who installs Xcode and tries to use this will be. Let me see if I can do a build without signing it.

[supermarin]

@JFKingsley you're totally right sir, and you shouldn't be spending your time on this from this point.

Your formula with prebuilt binary looks good and i think it's a better thing in the long run (apple likes to change build stuff).
I'm currently unavailable, but will take a look on this on the weekend / early next week.

[JFKingsley]

Well @supermarin, I did some fancies and I figured out a way to compile a build with no signing, works fine.

Ima spend my time on this until it's finalised and working properly, no stopping me there :P

[Ashton-W]

Where did we end up on this?

[JFKingsley]

I'm not entirely sure, we had one working binary script and I had a working script that installed from source, but I'm not sure if we ever got anywhere

[Ashton-W]

Could you put up a tap, then people can try it and we can move this along.

[nikolay]

Wouldn't Homebrew Cask (http://caskroom.io/) installation be the easiest?

[JFKingsley]

Possibly, although taps are pretty easy as well. Do you want me to tap the binary download script or the (unfinished) source compile script?

[supermarin]

@JFKingsley I really appreciate all your work done here - but wouldn't like you to waste more time if we don't end up using it.

Current install script isn't that bad

curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/supermarin/Alcatraz/master/Scripts/install.sh | sh

and updates are automatic.
Maybe it'd make sense to revisit this when the finish the binary distribution?

cc/ @kattrali @jurre

[JFKingsley]

Yeah, that would make more sense @supermarin, shall we put this on ice until then?

[mralexgray]

binary is done, no? can't this get finished/submitted to the home-brew team? would be a vast improvement to the ecosystem.

[kattrali]

Somehow this got lost in the mix, but Alcatraz has been available via brew cask for months.