Support for installating with Homebrew

[Odame]

Feature Request

This is a great piece of software - nice job done ✌🏾.
In addition to the existing coolness, it will be nice if this application supports installation via homebrew.

[briankendall]

I've never packaged up an app for installation via Homebrew before. This app might make more sense for homebrew cask, but I'm not sure. I may get around to it eventually, but if someone else wants to set that up, I'm happy to assist by doing whatever work is necessary on my end.

[Odame]

Yeah, a homebrew cask is definitely the right way to go in that regard.
I too, don't have experience with packaging for Homebrew. But I will take a look at homebrew and see if I can pull this off - unless someone else with prior experience wants to take this up.

[MartinMajewski]

I also like the homebrew approach, as it is the more modern and most popular way nowadays.

[ian-h-chamberlain]

Btw, looks like this just got added to homebrew-cask now: Homebrew/homebrew-cask#155006

It seems to just install the .app though, and not the driver (nor does it kickstart coreaudiod). Seems there are probably some helpers that could be added to the cask to make it work, although they seem to be missing one for Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL. I don't have much experience either but maybe @chenrui333 knows what to do since they opened the original PR.

[mahmoudhossam]

I've been bitten by the issue @ian-h-chamberlain mentioned, the cask does not install the driver at all.

Downloading the release and copying over the driver manually does work, maybe the readme needs to mention this?

[ian-h-chamberlain]

Homebrew/homebrew-cask#162690 has just been merged, which I believe should fix this issue (I think auto-close didn't work since it's in a different repo). It would be great if some other people could test it and verify the fix, after which I think this issue can be closed?

[mahmoudhossam]

I tried it today and it seems to do the right thing on my system.

I'd prefer if it gave more details on this Changing ownership of paths required by proxy-audio-device with sudo; the password may be necessary. as first-time installers might not have the necessary permissions set already.

[ian-h-chamberlain]

That message comes from brew itself, but you can see more details about what it's doing with --verbose --debug:

==> Changing ownership of paths required by proxy-audio-device with sudo; the password may be necessary.
/usr/bin/sudo -E -- /usr/sbin/chown -R -- root:wheel /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/ProxyAudioDevice.driver
/usr/bin/sudo -E -- /bin/launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod
==> Installing artifact of class Cask::Artifact::PostflightBlock
🍺  proxy-audio-device was successfully installed!

@Odame or @briankendall it seems like this is fixed now, would one of you like to close the issue?