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usagi-flow / evil-helix

Bringing the Helix editor to the evil side
https://github.com/usagi-flow/helix
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Homebrew support #43

Open Kop3sh opened 2 months ago

Kop3sh commented 2 months ago

Add Formula for homebrew

Adding evil-helix directly to homebrew would make installation easier (in a single step) and can potentially increase adoption

Kop3sh commented 2 months ago

I can start working on this one, if the project maintainers think that this is a good addition

Kop3sh commented 2 months ago

I've done a bit of research and found the below resource, stating that they usually don't accept forks... any ideas/ insights ?

homebrew guideline

usagi-flow commented 2 months ago

Forks can be a blocker when submitting packages, unfortunately. There isn't much we can do about that besides respecting the owners' choice to exclude forks.

If we want to insist on Homebrew, we could, however, consider creating our own 3rd-party repository (which Homebrew calls "taps"). FWIW, Homebrew allows the user to easily work with 3rd-party repos using the CLI. I'm not sure if users do get binary releases though, or if they have to build Helix themselves.

On the other hand, we could also create a MacPorts package. I see the upstream Helix has a package there already.

And then there's Fink, although its repo seems to be very... minimalistic? Not even Neovim made it on the list of editor packages, so my uninformed guess would be that that might be a dead end.

abelcha commented 2 months ago

If you want adoption create a real product, just a reminder nobody cares about text editors config, the ones who do allready have their opinion