Tell people using Linuxbrew/brew to switch to Homebrew/brew

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Tell people using Linuxbrew/brew to switch to Homebrew/brew #925

Closed sjackman closed 5 years ago

scpeters commented 5 years ago

I take it the linuxbrew install script will continue to be maintained?

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)"

iMichka commented 5 years ago

I take it the linuxbrew install script will continue to be maintained?

I would like to see if we can upstream it and have a common install script.

Homebrew announced that there was beta Linux support, and I am worried that some people may just read https://brew.sh and run the mac script. Another solution is to have both scripts but to update the doc and provide both links.

scpeters commented 5 years ago

Currently the brew installer directs to the linuxbrew page if linux is detected

https://github.com/Homebrew/install/blob/master/install#L157-L161

As long as Linuxbrew/homebrew-core is separate, I think there should be a separate linuxbrew.sh page, but I suppose upstreaming the installer could be considered.

sjackman commented 5 years ago

I've opened a PR to add install.sh to Homebrew/install: https://github.com/Homebrew/install/pull/174 If this PR is merged,

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

will work on both macOS and Linux.

scpeters commented 5 years ago

@sjackman nice, I like that approach

sjackman commented 5 years ago

Merged.