Install via brew cask

[philadams-zz]

Would love to be able to pull this onto new machines automatically.

[kaishin]

This would be nice indeed, but It's a bit out of my comfort zone. Happy to accept PRs though.

[philadams-zz]

I think on your side, the key will be #16 - I can then submit a patch to homebrew making it installable in that system.

[croaky]

Formula would probably go in https://github.com/thoughtbot/homebrew-formulae? Maybe some examples there that could help guide

[keith]

For Markoff the markoff.rb would look something like this:

cask 'markoff' do
  version '1.0.0'
  sha256 'something here via `shasum -a 256 Markoff.zip`'

  url 'a .app download URL'
  appcast 'url if you support sparkle'
  name 'Markoff'
  homepage 'https://github.com/thoughtbot/Markoff'
  license :mit

  app 'Markoff.app'
end

I haven't ever tried having cask formulas in taps, but you might be able to nest them in the Casks directory instead of the Formula one. Otherwise the PRs on the main homebrew-cask repo get in very quick, so it's easier to support there than homebrew itself.

[philadams-zz]

+1 yep that'll work :)

[adidalal]

(Homebrew Cask maintainer here)

A .dmg with the .app bundle/binaries inside, uploaded via Github Releases is probably the most efficient way to get BackgroundMusic in the HBC repo - there's plenty of Casks to model off of, and there is excellent documentation to write your own (but I'm biased 😁)

[Cbeck527]

@philadams @keith @adidalal my PR #36 should help adress this!

[FranklinYu]

mas-cli is another way to make use of Homebrew.

[adidalal]

FYI mas-cli != Homebrew (Cask).

We do know of it, and recommend it for MAS-only apps.

You can add still add it to Homebrew Cask, of course - my earlier comment is still true.

[dotWee]

Any update on the homebrew plans?