Closed Kalmalyzer closed 4 years ago
Kalmalyzer
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4 years ago micro's formula is a good example of a simple formula that builds an application from source, installs, and runs a minimal test. It also has prebuilt casks (binaries) for a few macos variants.
Kalmalyzer
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4 years ago Let's wait with source snapshots. The formula will fetch directly from phx' server (i.e. VASM_URL) for the time being.
Kalmalyzer
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4 years ago The tap (either official or custom) should contain the formula. The tap should not contain anything but the formula. Any other inputs - source snapshots, diffs, makefiles etc - should be stored elsewhere.
An automated release mechanism should update to the latest version of the tap, create a feature branch, update the formula in a single commit, and submit a PR. The tap repo (either official or custom) should then accept the PR, either via maintainer validation, or via automation.
Kalmalyzer
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4 years ago MacOS build is more-or-less functional. Need to take care of some further issues (#78 for example) before it is ready for action. Closing this for now.
Homebrew looks like the prime option.
It is possible to register repositories that act as "taps". A tap is a collection of formulas. A formula is an installation script. We could have one tap for all of prebuilt-amiga-dev-tools, similarly to the apt repository.
Homebrew always builds from source first, and optionally supports distributing pre-built binaries. We should first focus on building from source.
Here is a viable structure:
build-macosjob. For MacOS, it fetches vasm sources, and runs a formula. The formula builds vasmm68k and installs it. The same job will also run tests to verify that the build installs correctly.releasejob. For MacOS this will push an updated source snapshot + updated formula to thehomebrew-tap. [Q: should the vasmm68k repo commit changes directly to the other repo, or should this be done via a repository-dispatch trigger + reverse fetch of files? Probably the latter]homebrew-tapis a static repo with vasmm68k.rb + sources, only containing the latest release. [Q: does homebrew typically contain older versions as well in taps?]