Submit to Homebrew
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Ringo De Smet
I use Homebrew to install allmost all of my macOS apps, both CLI tools and applications ending up in
/Applications
.I keep track of what I have installed using a Brewfile. This allows me to reinstall a machine very fast.
Please submit MuteDeck to Homebrew as a Cask in https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-cask or create a separate cask repository in your own Github organization.
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Martijn Smit
complete
Happy to announce you can now install MuteDeck via Homebrew using: brew install --cask mutedeck/mutedeck/mutedeck
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Ringo De Smet
Martijn, is it an option to convert your installer to a macOS
pkg
format? This type of package can silently install via Homebrew.A good example is Google Drive, which provides a disk image (
dmg
), containing a pkg
file. This pkg
contains background process (launchctl
) and kernel extensions (pkgutil
). A lot is possible here.M
Martijn Smit
Ringo De Smet: Hi, thanks for your suggestion - but repackaging isn't a feasible solution. MuteDeck depends on the installer for its updates as well. Check out my general update, though. 😊
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Martijn Smit
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David
I'd still vote for this because I like to keep the list of what I want to install for my new machine as a list of brew packages & casks. Even if it's not hands off, having brew manage the list of packages and downloading and running the installers is still worthwhile.
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Martijn Smit
While it's possible to put up a brew package, the installer package is unable to run on the CLI without popping up the installer window. I'd said that defeats the purpose, but what do you think?