Closed ChristopherA closed 4 years ago
I presume the maintainer of the brew .rb file no longer is maintaining it
There are no maintainers of specific casks.
That one in particular was removed because almost no one was using it. You may readd it, and use its final iteration as a base.
if you can point me to more details on learning how
I’m quite proud of our documentation. Start with the CONTRIBUTING doc, as most contributions can be done in a single command. Anything else, try a PR and as specific questions there.
I'm not a ruby programmer
Neither are most of our contributors. You need zero ruby knowledge to contribute a cask, as they use their own syntax.
I'd be glad to try to help as I'm active brew user and could become a volunteer
Looking forward to it. Welcome.
General troubleshooting steps
--force
.brew update-reset && brew update
and retried my command.brew doctor
, fixed as many issues as possible and retried my command.Description of issue
The textsoap app was available via
brew cask install textsoap
as recently as April 19 last year https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/61612 but isn't available now. I presume the maintainer of the brew .rb file no longer is maintaining it, but I don't know how to find out who or why. I might be interested in maintaining it (and maybe some other apps) if you can point me to more details on learning how (I'm not a ruby programmer but I'd be glad to try to help as I'm active brew user and could become a volunteer.)Command that failed
Output of command with
--force --verbose --debug
Output of
brew cask doctor
Output of
brew tap