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Homebrew Bottles (Binary Support)

From:

Mike McQuaid

Date:

2011-06-09 @ 08:54

Folks,

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commit/e4dd52e

I merged in my first attempt at adding binary support to Homebrew. Binary 
packages are known as "bottles" and rather than building them they are 
"poured".

At the moment no formulae support bottling but I will shortly be adding it
to Qt and Boost so if you install with the default options (and also 
possibly on 10.6 and 64-bit only) it will use the bottle rather than the 
source.

If you're interested in testing this, please let me know as it would be 
good to have at least a few people to help test this, particularly if you 
have 10.5 or a 32-bit 10.6 machine.

If you're convinced the addition of binaries is the apocalypse then please
write an angry email to /dev/null and then export 
HOMEBREW_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE and you'll be able to spend 8 hours pointlessly
building packages and remain as (un)happy as you are at the moment with no
more disruptions to your life.

--
Mike McQuaid
http://mikemcquaid.com

Le 9 juin 2011 à 10:54, Mike McQuaid a écrit :

> Folks,
> 
> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commit/e4dd52e
> 
> I merged in my first attempt at adding binary support to Homebrew. 
Binary packages are known as "bottles" and rather than building them they 
are "poured".

Why “bottles”? Isn’t it risking confusion with Wine?

> At the moment no formulae support bottling but I will shortly be adding 
it to Qt and Boost so if you install with the default options (and also 
possibly on 10.6 and 64-bit only) it will use the bottle rather than the 
source.
> 
> If you're interested in testing this, please let me know as it would be 
good to have at least a few people to help test this, particularly if you 
have 10.5 or a 32-bit 10.6 machine.

I still have a MBP1,1 running 10.5, although I seldom boot it on OS X or 
at all.  Still, if you have particular test you want to run, please ask, 
just be aware that I don’t normally use the box on a daily basis.

> If you're convinced the addition of binaries is the apocalypse then 
please write an angry email to /dev/null and then export 
HOMEBREW_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE and you'll be able to spend 8 hours pointlessly
building packages and remain as (un)happy as you are at the moment with no
more disruptions to your life.

Édouard GILBERT
edouard.gilbert@gmail.com

I have an first gen MacBook running 10.6.7. I could do some testing for 
the 32bit part.

Sebastian


On 09.06.2011, at 10:54, Mike McQuaid wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commit/e4dd52e
> 
> I merged in my first attempt at adding binary support to Homebrew. 
Binary packages are known as "bottles" and rather than building them they 
are "poured".
> 
> At the moment no formulae support bottling but I will shortly be adding 
it to Qt and Boost so if you install with the default options (and also 
possibly on 10.6 and 64-bit only) it will use the bottle rather than the 
source.
> 
> If you're interested in testing this, please let me know as it would be 
good to have at least a few people to help test this, particularly if you 
have 10.5 or a 32-bit 10.6 machine.
> 
> If you're convinced the addition of binaries is the apocalypse then 
please write an angry email to /dev/null and then export 
HOMEBREW_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE and you'll be able to spend 8 hours pointlessly
building packages and remain as (un)happy as you are at the moment with no
more disruptions to your life.
> 
> --
> Mike McQuaid
> http://mikemcquaid.com
>