Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Tweak Acceptable Formulae #7195

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Mar 20, 2020
Merged

Tweak Acceptable Formulae #7195

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Diff view
Diff view
13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions docs/Acceptable-Formulae.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -13,18 +13,27 @@ We now accept versioned formulae as long as they [meet the requirements](Version

### We don’t like tools that upgrade themselves
Software that can upgrade itself does not integrate well with Homebrew's own
upgrade functionality. The self-update functionality should be disabled (if possible without complicating the formula).
upgrade functionality. The self-update functionality should be disabled (while minimising complication to the formula).

### We don’t like install scripts that download unversioned things
We don't like install scripts that are pulling from the `master` branch of Git repositories or unversioned, unchecksummed tarballs. These should use `resource` blocks with specific revisions or checksummed tarballs instead. Note that we now allow tools like `cargo`, `gem` and `pip` to download specifically versioned libraries during installation.

### We don’t like binary formulae
Our policy is that formulae in the core tap
([homebrew/core](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core)) must be open-source
with an [OSI-approved license](https://opensource.org/licenses) and either built
with an [Debian Free Software Guidelines license](https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses) and either built
from source or produce cross-platform binaries (e.g. Java, Mono). Binary-only
formulae should go to [homebrew/cask](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask).

Additionally, [homebrew/core](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core) formulae must also not depend on proprietary software/casks except the following:

- macOS
- Java
SMillerDev marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved
Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Suggested change
- Java
- [Java](https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/java)

- OSXFuse
Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Suggested change
- OSXFuse
- [OSXFUSE](https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/osxfuse)

Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Should be all caps.

- XQuartz
Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Suggested change
- XQuartz
- [XQuartz](https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/xquartz)


This includes automatic installation of casks at runtime.

### Stable versions
Formulae in the core repository must have a stable version tagged by
the upstream project. Tarballs are preferred to Git checkouts, and
Expand Down