Add binary packages

[chevdor]

It would be nice having a homebrew binary package for MacOS users. Scaffolding is especially useful for beginner users and they may not have the rust toolchain installed.

I did just that for the https://github.com/chevdor/tera-cli project and use... Tera to do the work :)

The template is rather simple: https://github.com/chevdor/tera-cli/blob/master/templates/formula.rb The CI doing that part is located here: https://github.com/chevdor/tera-cli/blob/master/.github/workflows/release.yml#L94

NOTE: I am using using a specific feature of chevdor/tera-cli in this CI: that is the support for ENV. For (probably too little) details, see:

• https://github.com/chevdor/tera-cli#env-support
• https://github.com/chevdor/tera-cli#env-only

[Keats]

I'm not planning to handle it myself, I just can't deal with all the packages I have but someone else could manage it like Zola.

[chevdor]

I renamed the issue because it concerns binaries in general, not only MacOS ones. I would gladly help you with github CI as I have done for other projects but I am not familiar with Azure pipelines. A good start would be to add the binaries as artifacts to the releases. Things like Homebrew formulas can then be made in other repos and point at the official binaries.

[Keats]

Binaries are available on the releases: https://github.com/Keats/kickstart/releases

[chevdor]

Hmmm not sure why I missed them...

So FYI, you seem to not miss much to expose kickstart as a Homebrew tap: For a Homebrew formula, you need to generate (or make manually) such a file:

class Kickstart < Formula
  desc "some description"
  homepage "https://github.com/Keats/kickstart"
  url "https://github.com/Keats/kickstart/releases/download/v0.2.1/kickstart-v0.2.1-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz"
  sha256 "40217f7edc3ccc76e9e1f81a6f05629f109d4ab9587ccd9a2d8031b6b844d02b"
  version "0.2.1"

  def install
    bin.install "kickstart"
  end
end

The only moving parts are:

• url
• sha256
• version

This needs to be hosted in a repo under a Formula folder. So all that is missing is the sha256.

As far as hosting is concerned, homebrew recommends a separate repo called in your case homebrew-kickstart. I am not a fan (personally) of having to manage yet another ci in another repo. So I prefer hosting the Formula folder in the main repo. The users have a type a slightly longer command to install but this is done once only.

To be honnest, a simple template to generate the Formula above does not really need Tera or tera-cli, and envsubst would work as well on *nix systems (not sure about windows), saving you one dependency.

[chevdor]

see also #41