Install Slash via Homebrew

[beakr]

You could easily make Slash installable via Homebrew using a script like this:

require 'formula'

class Slash < Formula
  homepage 'http://slash-lang.org'
  url 'DOWNLOAD_LINK'
  mirror 'DOWNLOAD MIRROR'
  sha1 'SHA1 HASH' # or md5

  DEPS = ['gmp', 'pcre', 'libgcrypt', 'yajl', 'discount']
  DEPS.each do |dep|
    depend_on dep
  end

  def install
    system "./configure --prefix=#{prefix}"
    system 'make && make install'
  end
end

[haileys]

Cool! Would it work if I stuck the formula file somewhere like pkg/slash.rb and had users run brew install pkg/slash.rb?

[beakr]

@charliesome It would if you used brew install https://raw.github.com/slash-lang/slash/master/pkg/slash.rb. You could submit a pull request to mxcl/homebrew if you want it in the official homebrew repo.

[twe4ked]

Homebrew don't like maintainers submitting their own software to the homebrew repo.

[haileys]

In any case I think I'd like to release a proper version before anyone submits this to Homebrew proper.

[beakr]

@twe4ked I thought it was the opposite?

@charliesome Yeah, just throwing out a script that I think may be a useful consideration

Side note for Homebrew formula:

Remember you can add methods for options like --apache for automatic webserver configuration.

[parkr]

For now, this would need to be a devel block.

[twe4ked]

@beaker I thought so based on this comment but that was a while ago.

[beakr]

@twe4ked ah, never knew that before. Then again, you can always host a fork, the script, or have something you could tap into.

[dholdren]

if you create a repo at github.com/slash-lang/homebrew-slash and add the contents of the formula above to a file named slash.rb at the root, then end users could do:
brew tap slash-lang/slash (follows the naming convention, one time operation)
brew install slash