brasse

brasse is a Homebrew clone written in Rust. The goals of this project are:

• increase speeds for operations performed offline
  • brew list takes over 400 ms (brasse list takes 1 ms)
  • brew search git takes 869 ms
  • brew info git takes 530 ms
• provide good piping support to allow for, for example:
  • pipe a list of package names to install
  • pipe a list from outdated to info
• (optionally) provide better dependency management
  • similarly to APT, differentiate automatically and manually installed packages to remove the former if they have no dependents
• keep everything compatible with the official brew executable

Install

From GitHub releases

1. Open the latest brasse release on GitHub
2. Download the asset that corresponds to your CPU (aarch64 being Apple Silicon (M1/M2) and x86_64 being Intel)
3. Put the executable in your $PATH (for example, ~/.local/bin)

Build from Source

You need to have a Rust toolchain installed.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/kytta/brasse.git

2. (if you have just) run just install

3. If you don't have just, run:

   cargo build --release
   install -m 755 target/release/brasse ~/.local/bin/brasse

The steps above assume ~/.local/bin is in your $PATH

Status

This is very much an experimental project.

Benchmarks are done with hyperfine

Currently implemented

brasse list

Currently, this just outputs the list of formulae and casks. Supported arguments: -1

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
brew list	435.2 ± 7.2	428.5	453.1	329.88 ± 27.27
brasse list	1.3 ± 0.1	1.2	2.9	1.00

Name

brasse (pronounced [bʁas]) is a present and imperative form of the French verb brasser, which means ‘to brew’.

Licence

Copyright © 2022 Nikita Karamov
Licensed under the BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License.

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This project is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/kytta/brasse.git