Begin versioning/releasing kakoune?

[jjthrash]

I'm working on a homebrew recipe to make it easy to to install on OSX. (Try brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jjthrash/homebrew/master/Library/Formula/kakoune.rb)

However, I had to make up a version number, 0.1, since kakoune doesn't have one. It would be handy if you could make an "official" release version.

However, I can also just change the recipe to version the installs based on date of latest commit for the build, e.g. 20140403 for the build corresponding to the recipe above.

[mawww]

Hum, I do not know, I think I'd rather have the git version being used for now. I'd rather work on adding more tests and continuous integration to keep a stable master than having to support older versions and make releases.

Note that homebrew has the homebrew-headonly tap for software with no official release.

[jjthrash]

Sounds good. I've used homebrew a lot, but haven't ever written anything for it. I'll take a look at the headonly stuff.

[jjthrash]

Not seeing any activity in merging the headonly code. In theory we could include the homebrew recipe in this repo and give instructions in the README about installing.

[OJFord]

@mawww @jjthrash The head-only repo is going (Homebrew/homebrew-head-only#186); maintainer asking about it in #315 (which is a duplicate of this really, in title at least).

[lenormf]

Nothing indicates that the repository is going to be removed any time soon, there's still time. The recipe is outdated though, c.f. #977.

[lenormf]

Relevant to this issue: http://semver.org/

[alyssais]

Homebrew maintainer here. To my knowledge, we won't be taking any more head-only formulae and that repo has been put into read-only mode. If you're not ready to commit to versioned releases, you could put the formula in your own Homebrew tap (basically just a dedicated Git repo) so your users can still get updates through Homebrew, and when the formula gets into Homebrew core those installations can be seamlessly migrated. We do recommend moving to versioned releases as soon as possible though, because it provides a much better experience when using a package manager.

Let me know if I can help at all! :)

[jjthrash]

@alyssais Thanks for the heads-up. Homebrew user here, and I'm fine using a tap. @mawww If you want me to set up a tap, let me know.

[Delapouite]

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/releases/tag/v2018.04.13

[alfiepates]

<3 Thanks, @mawww!

[mawww]

You are welcome.