Every time a new Crystal release comes out it inevitably gets delayed for macOS because it has to wait for approval from the home-brew core team. I think this is totally reasonable for them to do, but it does make it hard for the Crystal community because some libs work for newer versions but can’t …

Yes, we had a tap but eventually we moved to the official homebrew, I think because it’s more accesible. Now I don’t know anymore, I think we should have a tap and get us out of the official repository.

The official brew formula is the main way to distribute crystal in osx I would say. A tap can be used but will never be as straight as having the formula there. As a workaround, on mac, using the hosted .pkg or .tar.gz for darwing in github is really simple. Maybe we should advertise that as an alt…

[image] bcardiff: A tap can be used but will never be as straight as having the formula there. I’m not 100% sure I understand. Adding a tap is just one line to run and then never needs to be run again. The advantage is Crystal can 100% control the release date. So far I don’t think home-brew …

Also, we don’t provide Crystal in any other official medium, for example Ubuntu. You have to add our repository and download crystal from there. For homebrew a tap would be equivalent. I think homebrew is the only official thing and I’d personally get rid of it. Maybe once we reach 1.0 it’ll make mo…

I realize my request may seem odd without an example. Nearly every time a new version of Crystal comes out something breaks in Lucky or one of its libraries (this is ok! Crystal is changing :D) The problem that comes up is that I can’t reliably release a working version of Lucky. If I release one…

The request is not odd @paulcsmith . I think that homebrew is the main distribution for crystal in osx. Before we used to have the tap, but once we got the crystal (and crystal-lang ;-) ) names there we migrate to support that. These release raise some flags on their side and that is the reason of …

[image] bcardiff: Post the PR as a tap forcing users to bulid the compiler in release mode. Leading for slow installation for end users I think that’s at most like 5 minutes. I don’t think it’s a big issue. Plus this will definitely run on a Mac so we can be sure it will run successfully (the…

I use crenv often because shards are at different crystal versions. it works well for versions that have not hit homebrew yet.

Maybe a tap for “head” or…latest? I’d imagine the “standard way” would be from the central brew repo…

Use Crystal home-brew tap instead of official one

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j8r April 24, 2019, 1:22pm 8

Or use the package manager agnostic https://github.com/pine/crenv

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Use Crystal home-brew tap instead of official one

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