deep integration with homebrew & brew bundle

[ghost]

Thinking about being able to specify mac app store apps in my Brewfile and have them be installed as part of brew bundle.

[argon]

That sounds like a great idea. I'd be interested to see what anyone can come up with for this but it is outside the scope for my use of the tool.

[MikeMcQuaid]

I'm one of the Homebrew maintainers and am up for implementing this. @argon how would you feel about mas being part of the main Homebrew repository? If you're 🆗 with that I'll create a PR.

[argon]

@MikeMcQuaid could you explain a little more how you'd see this working please?

[MikeMcQuaid]

@argon I'd see the following steps (if they were all 🆗 with you):

1. mas be added to the homebrew/core repository so anyone can brew install mas.
2. brew bundle dump will dump your App Store apps to a Brewfile using mas list and install them using mas install (if you have mas already installed).

[argon]

@MikeMcQuaid that sounds great. I guess the main impact to me would be needing a PR to homebrew/core whenever I release a new version?

[MikeMcQuaid]

@argon Yep, basically, although the community may notice and pick that up for you.

[argon]

@MikeMcQuaid Awesome 🆗. Can't wait to see what the future holds.

[MikeMcQuaid]

@argon Well done on an awesome project. I had it bookmarked for a while and thought I was going to be disappointed by an ugly hack but it's pretty great 👏

[timsutton]

Guilty as charged (!), that's my Apple radar I opened today asking Apple to write a supported CLI tool to do what the mas tool allows.

I think this project is awesome and have had good results with it, but it would be great if it didn't require using internal frameworks. Feel free to dupe!

[MikeMcQuaid]

@argon Not merged yet but Homebrew/homebrew-core#493 Homebrew/homebrew-bundle#172

[ebramanti]

@MikeMcQuaid This is merged now correct?