Add app to Homebrew casks/MacPorts package managers to handle autoupdates

[woelper]

This is an interesting topic. Would you be able to help out with this? Are you aware oculante can auto-update through settings?

[eugenesvk]

I can help with Windows (see https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/issues/10003)

Don't know anything about Ports, and also unlikely can help with Brew since it doesn't support Catalina anymore, so might be a challenge to test, but might test it later, hopefully should be easier for binary installs...

Yes, I'm aware of auto-update, it's nice to have as well, but then it's not always the best thing for the first launch experience to be having to remember updating an app (especially when it's manual)

[eugenesvk]

Tried to add a cask (binary distributable) on Homebrew, but apparently casks on ARM must be signed and since your binary isn't it will not be accepted (doesn't pass the audit) You might want to add your own tap, this is the relevant cask formula that I created before I learned about the signing requirement https://github.com/eugenesvk/homebrew-cask/blob/oculante/Casks/oculante.rb

Also, not sure if the most annoying part — updating the tap version/sha on new releases — can be automated

[eugenesvk]

Good news — I've managed to find a way for you to set up an automated workflow to update the homebrew cask on every new tag released on this main repo (there is a github action to open a pull request to update the version and another action to automerge it, so hopefully you won't have to do anything once it's set up)

You'd need to complete the following two steps:

• Copy this cask repo https://github.com/eugenesvk/homebrew-oculante and update the installation instructions with the new links (and then reference it in your workflow described below)
• Check out this sample repo that would be the equivalent of your main repo https://github.com/woelper/oculante/, the ReadMe should have sufficiently described how to set up the autoupdates

(for example, if I push a tag in that homebrew-bump repo, then the homebrew-oculante and cask repo is fully autoupdated with the version taken from that tag, including automerging the PR)

(or there could be an easier way to update version/sha in the template, haven't looked into it, but might check https://github.com/wez/wezterm/blob/main/ci/wezterm-homebrew-macos.rb.template and the CI jobs in that repo)

[woelper]

Thank you, this sounds amazing! I'll get on with that as soon as I fixed some of the issues I am working on.