please license brew/tea to enterprises. Most of them are willing to pay for license, if the developers ask for it. It can be opensource, but add some licensable features that company will pay for.
This. At a previous job I ended up writing quite a bit of tooling around installing and updating developer tools, for 1000+ devs. Some things that would have been a very easy sale:
- private, managed brew repos
- linux support
- onboarding / workstation setup via Brewfile
- maybe a graphical interface for that
- enterprise support plan (would have been handy when `/usr/local/bin` stopped being writable some OSX versions back)
Eventually a lot of it moved to NPM via artifactory for the ease of publishing & consumption.
What distro are you using that doesn't have a proper package manager? Brew exists precisely because this has been standard for years/decades on linux but OSX hasn't had anything built in.
Of course they all do - the desire for good homebrew support (linuxbrew already exists) comes from the ease of writing formulas and scripting in Ruby, it's infinitely easier than packaging for apt / apk. Plus the fact that 80% of developers use Mac, but you can't leave the 20% out in the rain. This is for in-house software, not third party.
- private, managed brew repos
- linux support
- onboarding / workstation setup via Brewfile
- maybe a graphical interface for that
- enterprise support plan (would have been handy when `/usr/local/bin` stopped being writable some OSX versions back)
Eventually a lot of it moved to NPM via artifactory for the ease of publishing & consumption.