Homebrew recipe

[michaelrkn]

Hey Jeff - what do you think about providing localtunnel as a Homebrew formula, instead of (or in addition to) installing with pip? I'm a Rubyist who loves localtunnel, and it would be great to be able to install it without having to install Python-specific stuff that I wouldn't otherwise need.

Thanks for your good work.

[Bouke]

Even with a homebrew package you would still need Python and the libraries. The only difference is that Homebrew would install Python and the dependencies for you.

So instead of:

brew install python
pip install localtunnel

You'd do something like:

brew install python-localtunnel

Being a Homebrew and Python fan myself, I like your proposal.

[michaelrkn]

Actually, I think you could even make python a dependency of localtunnel, so you just need to run brew install localtunnel.

[progrium]

Homebrew recipe sounds great!

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Michael Kaiser-Nyman < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Actually, I think you could even make python a dependency of localtunnel, so you just need to run brew install localtunnel.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/issues/94#issuecomment-15704479 .

Jeff Lindsay http://progrium.com

[etataurov]

as I understood from this https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Acceptable-Formulae they don't really like to accept formulaes of software that can be easily installed via pip

[michaelrkn]

@etataurov I'm not sure where you're seeing that.

[etataurov]

@michaelrkn I think, I misunderstood the Bindings paragraph

[davemac]

Would love to see a Homebrew recipe for localtunnel too

[ghost]

i don't think it's needed. it's fine to be a python package

[progrium]

That Python version has reached EOL. There is a minimal Go version in master incubating. If there is demand, I'll produce binary releases that work on OS X and Linux.

[michaelrkn]

also ngrok is available through homebrew.

[mogul]

ngrok is now closed source. :(