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🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
https://brew.sh
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Add a description to cask #1790

Closed muescha closed 10 years ago

muescha commented 10 years ago

add a one line description to cask

to get niceer listings like:

acorn       - Acorn 4, a great Mac OS X image editor, built for humans. - Flying Meat
adapter     - Adapter - Free Image and Video Converter for Mac and PC
adventure   - Adventure - Mac App Store Downloads on iTunes - Apple
aegisub     - Aegisub Advanced Subtitle Editor
aero-fs     - Secure File Sharing and File Sync | AeroFS | Features
air-server  - AirServer - Most advanced AirPlay receiver for Mac and PC
airfoil     - Rogue Amoeba | Airfoil for Mac: Wireless Audio Around Your House
amadeus-pro - Amadeus Pro - HairerSoft - Audio editor / sound and voice recorder ...
anki - Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcards
anonym      - Download Anonym for Mac - Surf the Web anonymously ...
app-zapper  - AppZapper - The uninstaller Apple forgot.
appcode     - JetBrains AppCode: Objective-C IDE done right
arq         - Arq: Online Backup for Mac to Amazon AWS Glacier and S3 ...
asepsis     - Asepsis is a system utility for prevention of .DS_Store files
you-view    - Download YouView for Mac - Browse YouTube without a browser ...
zap-proxy   - OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project - OWASP
zero-xed    - Using a custom number format to display leading zeros
zip-cleaner - Download ZipCleaner for Mac - Discard superfluous files from .zip ...
zooom       - Zooom/2: Window management for your Mac made easy

(from this gist: https://gist.github.com/phinze/211a02d0223acb700260 )

acollign commented 10 years ago

:+1: that would be very useful and would benefit the search feature.

phinze commented 10 years ago

We've discussed this in the past and made the same conclusion that homebrew makes: homepages are much easier to maintain than descriptions.

The maintenance problems are numerous:

That gist was just a list of fetched <title> elements from homepage - if I were to regenerate the list today I bet you many apps would be different. That's the beauty of storing URLs - each app's team can be responsible for how the app is presented.

I'm happy to entertain counterarguments here, but I'm just not seeing the work/benefit ratio working out for this.

muescha commented 10 years ago

and it would also improve the search results if the brew cask search also can search the description