Since we know brew does breaking changes time to time (which is totlly fine), and this repository is not actively developed, it would be nice to run tests every day so that we proactively know if it breaks.

Please add a license.

I think the code that gets executed when running the install script runs under python 2.7. It does on my machine, at least, and I'm not sure how to change that.

8:35:56 [.dotfiles] (master) % ./install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/mattdavis/.dotfiles/dotbot/bin/dotbot", line 45, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/mattdavis/.dotfiles/dotbot/bin/dotbot", line 42, in main
    dotbot.cli.main()
  File "/Users/mattdavis/.dotfiles/dotbot/dotbot/cli.py", line 132, in main
    module.load(abspath)
  File "/Users/mattdavis/.dotfiles/dotbot/dotbot/util/module.py", line 10, in load
    plugin = load_module(module_name, path)
  File "/Users/mattdavis/.dotfiles/dotbot/dotbot/util/module.py", line 33, in load_module
    return imp.load_source(module_name, path)
  File "/Users/mattdavis/.dotfiles/dotbot-brew/brew.py", line 13
    _directives: Mapping[str, Callable] = {}
               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Line 13 of brew.py is this type stuff. Hadn't seen that in python before, but I guess it's valid in 3.x.

_directives: Mapping[str, Callable] = {}

If I print sys.version from dotbot/bin/dotbot, I see this.

2.7.16 (default, Sep  6 2021, 07:39:44) 
[GCC Apple LLVM 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.19.59.6) [+internal-os, ptrauth-isa=deploy

Any thoughts here? I'd like to use your plugin, but something's wrong.

I'm not sure, does this already automatically install homebrew if it is not already installed in the machine when bootstrapping the dotfiles? Otherwise it would be a great thing, wouldn't it?

brew bundle shows prettified output with green colors after installing a package and no styling in case of the package being already installed, so it looks great.

brew bundle --verbose shows more details on what is actually going on, in particular on whether a particular package is being installed.

the non-verbose version is prettier but it looks like it's stuck or something on large installs. It doesn't show enough information.

Consider changing this?

Hey there, thanks for the amazing project!

Is there any way to check for macos? otherwise the plugin fails on other systems. An easy way is to do simply a call from python and check uname -s and check if its darwin.

Otherwise maybe some docs on how to use it only on macOS
https://github.com/cupcakearmy/dotfiles/blob/7b44b3e31b5a54ee3e20b6dcf1a4a3a6e8f79989/install#L15-L19

Any thoughts?

Right now there's a cool feature: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

It allows to use Brewfile like this: brew bundle dump
And to install: brew bundle

Here's an example: https://github.com/sobolevn/dotfiles/blob/master/Brewfile

It would be nice to support this format. Like this:

 - brewfile: 
     "path/to/Brewfile"

It would be nice to update package if new version found

It seems like installing brew (on macOS, at least) has a few required set-up steps after the initial download

- Run these two commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to your PATH:
    echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/alexlafroscia/.zprofile
    eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

While the first one of those is not something I would expect this plugin to do, that second command ends up necessary; without it, the rest of the process of actually using the brew command fails due to brew not actually being available in the $PATH of the shell that dotbot is running in.

As a short-term work-around, after dotbot failed to install my brew packages, was to run that second command and then try dotbot a second time. This worked, but getting it all installed the first time is the goal!

==> Caveats
To have launchd start tor now and restart at login:
  brew services start tor
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
  tor

It would be nice if you could enable services to automatically start on reboots.

Hello,

Posting this request here from anishathalye/dotbot#122

My request is fairly simple. I'm in a situation where I'm jumping between a macbook and a linux machine and I'm using both dotbot-pacuar and dotbot-brew to maintain a list of my packages for both machines.

The lists contain, for the most part, the same exact packages with a few here and there differences.

Currently, there's no way to use reference anchors in the plugin yaml file so I have to write my package lists like this:

- pacaur:
  - package1
  - package2
  - package3
  - package4
  - package5
  - linux-specific1

- brew:
  - package1
  - package2
  - package3
  - package4
  - package5
  - mac-specific1
  - mac-specific2

As you can see, there's a lot of unnecesary repeats between both lists.

What I'd like to do instead is this:

- &common
  - package1
  - package2
  - package3
  - package4
  - package5

- pacaur:
  - *common
  - linux-specific1

- brew:
  - *common
  - mac-specific1
  - mac-specific2

This almost works right now, but the hangup is that dotbot doesn't first flatten the lists prior to passing them to the plugins. So what the plugins end up getting is this:

- pacaur:
  -
    - package1
    - package2
    - package3
    - package4
    - package5
  - 
    - linux-specific1

- brew:
  - 
    - package1
    - package2
    - package3
    - package4
    - package5
  - 
    - mac-specific1
    - mac-specific2

Hope that makes sense. Thanks for considering! 😄

There are programs you may want to install only on your personal computer and not on your work computer, and vice versa. Add an option to conditionally run a set of installs depending on some condition. I have a (probably sloppy considering my trash shell scripting skills) example of this in my dotfiles.

Something like

brew:
    if: $(who | grep "some_specific_condition")
    programs:
         - work_only_program

Here's what happens on a brand new OSX installation:

Installing from file install.conf/Brewfile
Updating Homebrew...
==> Tapping homebrew/bundle
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-bundle'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 32, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (32/32), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (26/26), done.
remote: Total 5331 (delta 13), reused 18 (delta 6), pack-reused 5299
Receiving objects: 100% (5331/5331), 1.20 MiB | 1.16 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3117/3117), done.
Tapped 1 command (104 files, 1.5MB).
Error: Cask 'workflowy' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.
Installing workflowy has failed!
Error: Cask 'google-chrome' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.
Installing google-chrome has failed!
Error: Cask 'firefox' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.

It seems that the cask has not initialised yet when dotbot-brew is trying to install casks.
Running any cask command manually in terminal will trigger the init process, like so:

brew cask info 
==> Tapping homebrew/cask
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 4, done.
...

It's probably an easy fix. What do you think?

Implement it as separate directive (cask).

Dependencies installed through https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle (e.g. via a Brewfile) will then automatically be upgraded.