Create and submit a brew formula

[OJFord]

Repo more than meets the star/fork requirements. Most Mac users would probably prefer a pure-brew install than a brew+npm install.

brew install gnu-sed --with-default-names && npm install -g diff-so-fancy would become brew install diff-so-fancy. You could even include the git configuration in the formula.

[stevemao]

I think homebrew is already available but not pointing to this repo.
No

[OJFord]

Do you know the name? I don't get any results for brew search diff-so-fancy.

[paulirish]

yah i'm not seeing it either.

I'm OK with having this available via homebrew, though i've never maintained a brew package before. seems likely higher friction pushing to npm.

[paulirish]

@OJFord i dont think we'd get the default-names applied if we set it as a dependency. So we'd have to rely on gsed and sniff for that first. Slightly more complicated, but probably fine.

[OJFord]

@paulirish Hmm, good point, I've never tried to do anything analagous so I couldn't say either way for sure. (See Homebrew/homebrew#35948).

As a workaround though, it could be done in the install block with a system call. I expect (hope) brew maintainers would be happy with that until an alternative exists though.

[OJFord]

Oh! I thought of a better solution: you could use inreplace to change instances of sed in the script to gsed; then the dependency needs no flags, right?

[anshul]

Or something like this could work? - #25

[OJFord]

@anshul That might be more robust. If the brew install with default name flag doesn't alias gsed as well (I'd hope so, but have no idea) then I suppose my above suggestion fails if gnu-sed already installed. (I checked the formula, it does symlink gsed -> sed, so it should be fine).

[OJFord]

Closed via Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#49040.

[stevemao]

Thanks again @OJFord 😄

[stevemao]

We need to add docs on how to install via Homebrew.

[OJFord]

@stevemao No worries :)

So for install instructions, I'd suggest just replacing the "on Mac, get gnu-sed with brew" with "on Mac, install via brew: brew install diff-so-fancy".

Can PR if you want [Have PR'd because I'm not doing anything else], but if you'd prefer to just get the wording how you'd like it yourself rather than review mine that's 👍 too!