Provide binaries via Homebrew (Bottle)

[udondan]

Is it relaly required to have XCode installed or is that an error in the brew installer?

❯ brew install ohueter/tap/autokbisw

....

autokbisw: A full installation of Xcode.app is required to compile
this software. Installing just the Command Line Tools is not sufficient.

Xcode can be installed from the App Store.
Error: autokbisw: An unsatisfied requirement failed this build.

Is this an install dependency or does this need to be present when using it? Either way, that's quite a heavy dependency. I'm downloading 13GB now just to switch the language of my KB 😹

[ohueter]

Hi @udondan, we're not providing binaries via Homebrew so unfortunately the source code needs to be compiled on your machine using XCode, which indeed is a heavy download.

For now, if you don't want to download XCode, you may download the current binary from the latest release here: https://github.com/ohueter/autokbisw/releases/tag/1.4.0 (Direct Link: https://github.com/ohueter/autokbisw/releases/download/1.4.0/autokbisw-1.4.0.zip)

I haven't looked into providing a Homebrew Bottle (https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ#why-do-you-compile-everything). If you like autokbisw and would like to contribute, gathering more info on what's needed for bottling a formula would be great.

[ohueter]

Providing code-signed binaries (Bottles) for both Intel and M1 Macs from a private Homebrew tap currently seems to be very complicated and expensive (would require a Mac Developer Certificate for $99/year and setting up private GitHub runners on my own servers). That's not going to happen :-)

If autokbisw collects more stars in GitHub, it may be added to the Homebrew core repo one day. Then binaries would be available from the Homebrew maintainers. Until then, there is nothing we can do, unfortunately.