Create a Formula for Homebrew

[buckket]

Don’t own a Mac any more, so I can’t test or write it myself, but it would be nice to have.

[shakna-israel]

I could take a crack at this. I have an iMac with el Capitane, atm.

[buckket]

Useful resources:

• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Homebrew-and-Python.md
• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Python-for-Formula-Authors.md

Plus: there are some Python CLI tools in homebrew already: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/7b3963ee1da7f0a4f97a28886efcff2cb88d821c/Library/Formula/httpie.rb

[shakna-israel]

Sorry about the time on this, just got waylaid by a couple things.

There is a question however:

Most products distributed with Homebrew tend to be cutting edge, along the lines of Gentoo.

But, I could use git tags(github releases) to do some version pinning.

Basically depends on how sure we are that the master branch won't be incredibly buggy.

Can we simply trust in the Unittests, or should we match the git tagged versions?

[timofurrer]

I'd highly recommend to use the official version tags.

[buckket]

Yeah, better use the tagged releases. Using master only leads to confusion when half-implemented or undocumented features are beging shipped to the end user.

[shakna-israel]

Sure thing, I'll try to link to latest.

[shakna-israel]

Update:

There's an open pull request at #49714.

Unfortunately, Click is causing some issues with brew-test bot.

RuntimeError: Click will abort further execution because Python 3 was configured to use ASCII as encoding for the environment.  Either run this under Python 2 or consult http://click.pocoo.org/python3/ for mitigation steps.

Just need to find a work around it not grabbing utf-8 properly:

Click discovered that you exported a UTF-8 locale

but the locale system could not pick up from it because

it does not exist.  The exported locale is "en_US.UTF-8" but it

is not supported

[buckket]

@shakna-israel Cool! Bet there is a way to circumvent this. But why have you listed six as a dependency for twtxt? That’s not needed! (Or has that something to do with how homebrew works?)

[shakna-israel]

Nope, just something that homebrew-poet picked up. I'll drop the dependency.

Just having issues with Travis only having en_US.UTF-8, but click wanting C.UTF-8... Hopefully some environment variable should be able to trick it.

[buckket]

Also should the test command run something that doesn’t fail as well as do something meaningful. Thinking of writing a default config file and then call twtxt -c config timeline.

[buckket]

Something like: https://gist.github.com/buckket/f5a09fb41d8c1712f40e (regarding the test)

This could be expanded to cover more of twtxt’s functionality, but it should do for now.

[buckket]

Ok, six is required by python-dateutil, missed that. So leave it there! :bow:

[shakna-israel]

Seems like the test builds pass now. See Jenkins 43122.

Needed to have a twtxt.txt file present, as well as the configuration.

[shakna-israel]

Merged in homebrew.

[buckket]

Thanks, @shakna-israel!