Homebrew

Using Homebrew for distributing Go apps (part 2)

2023-04-13

For personal reference: This is a followup on a previous post that is a bit more manual. This is a little bit easier. a) Create your own Homebrew tap Create a new GitHub public repository with a prefix homebrew-, i.e. homebrew-tap. This will host all the apps that you want to distribute via your tap. Users will install your apps using the following commands: No need to include the 'homebrew-' prefix $ brew tap flowerinthenight/tap $ brew install <toolname> # Or one-liner $ brew install flowerinthenight/tap/<toolname> b) Let’s use Github Actions to setup goreleaser First, add a .

Go · Golang · Goreleaser · Homebrew · Ruby · Tech

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Using Homebrew for distributing Go (golang) apps

2019-07-30

For personal reference: a) Create your own homebrew tap Create a new GitHub public repository with a prefix homebrew-, i.e. homebrew-tap. This will house all the apps that you want to distribute via your tap. Users will install your apps using the following commands: No need to include the 'homebrew-' prefix $ brew tap flowerinthenight/tap $ brew install <toolname> The toolname part will correspond to the filename inside your repository tap.

Go · Golang · Homebrew · Ruby

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