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by ianai 1217 days ago
It's 2023. Hard drive space shouldn't be an issue. Test installing the full software suite, make it work, and you know the lesser installs will all work.
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orf 1217 days ago
Do you think “hard drive space” is the constraining factor when building and testing over 6.5k third party packages?

Do you really not see any advantage to maintainers having visibility into what packages people actually use?

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Larrikin 1217 days ago
How much would you be willing to pay so that Homebrew can maintain a large amount of hardware covering nearly all configurations?
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justinclift 1217 days ago
Just checked their OpenCollective, and they seem to have about US$100k there:

https://opencollective.com/homebrew#category-BUDGET

They seem to be receiving about US$2k/month via Patreon too:

https://www.patreon.com/homebrew

I think their Patreon was around the same when I looked ~12 months ago.

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shepherdjerred 1217 days ago
$2k/mo is a terribly low figure for a piece of software that nearly every dev on macOS uses.
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justinclift 1217 days ago
That US$100k seems to have arrived over the last year, and their overheads - from quickly looking over their OpenCollective expenses tab - seem to be mostly buying hardware for CI things, and a monthly GSuite bill.

It's also pretty likely they get a lot of their resources for free / sponsored too.

So, US$2k/mo might be fine (no idea).

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shepherdjerred 1217 days ago
> Test installing the full software suite, make it work

Are you paying for the compute?

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