Add homebrew installation method

[salarkhan]

brew pear vs brew git-pear

relevant links

• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Formula-Cookbook
• http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97065/how-do-i-write-a-homebrew-recipe

[salarkhan]

About the first line above:

was wondering if we should just change the name to pear for homebrew...? unless we can somehow upload it as git-pear && have it be executed by calling pear

[salarkhan]

Short version of how to upload to brew:

Fork Homebrew.
brew create http://example.com/foo-0.1.tar.gz
git checkout -b foo
git commit Library/Formula/foo.rb && git push
PR to Homebrew

Here's the problem. In line 2 of the above, we have to have a tarball of git-pear. Does that mean we have to ensure that we create && commit a tarball every time we push to master? ( i'm assuming we'd just host it within the repo )

Btw I figured out how to make a tarball: tar cvfz pear.tgz git-pear/

[salarkhan]

@supertopher

All you need to make a formula is a URL to the tarball.

Where the hell can I host a tarball..?

[salarkhan]

wait lol it's dropbox time

[salarkhan]

We will reject formulae that seem too obscure, partly because they won’t get maintained and partly because we have to draw the line somewhere.

We frown on authors submitting their own work unless it is very popular.

Errrrr this might be a deterrant. Repo prob needs more than 5 stars to pass this requirement lolol

[supertopher]

i think github will create a tar ball for us from the repo.

also i can get some students to star the repo for us

[supertopher]

this will download the repo and untar it curl -L https://github.com/salarkhan/git-pear/tarball/master | tar zx

this is the link https://github.com/salarkhan/git-pear/tarball/master

[salarkhan]

here's my formula

require "formula"

class Pear < Formula
  homepage "https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1fublkznjtbnbi/pear.tar.gz?dl=1"
  url "zX"
  sha1 "97e81ccd523e8dfa7bfd49bbb4187de554764c1a"
  version "0.0"

  depends_on :x11

  def install
    system "./install"
  end
end

here's my error. how the heck am i supposed to run the install script within pear..? the first thing i printed there is the pwd when the formula's install method runs the second thing is all the files inside there.

neither of them make sense to me

i've looked at other formula and it seems like people are using Makefiles

[salarkhan]

also crazy find with https://github.com/salarkhan/git-pear/tarball/master btw, thats super dope