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RJVB / afsctool

This is a version of "brkirch"'s afsctool utility that allows end-users to leverage HFS+ compression.
https://brkirch.wordpress.com/afsctool
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Is this afsctool the clear successor to the original? Should the homebrew afsctool formula point here instead? #41

Closed varenc closed 3 years ago

varenc commented 3 years ago

The original v1.6.4 afsctool from brkirch seems abandoned but it's still the version that Homebrew's afsctool formula installs. See here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/afsctool.rb. The formula even applies 2 patches to the old code so that it will compile on recent macOS.

Is this fork the clear de-facto successor? Would every, or nearly every, Homebrew user of afsctool v1.6.4 just be happier with this fork instead? I suspect so, but am honestly not sure! All I'm really asking is does @RJVB think this is a good idea?

If this sounds good, then I'm volunteering myself to embark on a quest to try and get the Homebrew formula updated.

RJVB commented 3 years ago

I'm not going to emit any advice - other than

1) check my commit log to see what I did to the original code, esp. my earliest 2) MacPorts now provides my afsctool version (though probably under a different name, at brkirch's request; I'm not the port maintainer)

gingerbeardman commented 3 years ago

@varenc answer to your questions is "yes", but there has been some past drama and bullying by homebrew team. they will not accept this fork as the latest version for their own policy reasons.

Search https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core closed issues and PRs for afsctool

Those patches were gleaned from this version IIRC

duffyjp commented 3 years ago

Here's a link to the Macports entry, if anyone is looking: afscompress.

RJVB commented 3 years ago

I'm closing this because here's not the right place to discuss HB policies.