[dengolius]

Homebrew is a horrible thing for user who is not familiar with ruby syntax. Community do not have any user friendly how-to guides for developing new Formulae as well as weird tests like to long description or to long line.

For example I have a mono repository which contain Makefile and can produce one or six different executable tools. Four of these six tools are CLI utilities but the other three should work as a service. The problem I have encountered is the lack of documentation or an example of how to write auto-tests for daemons and for utilities in one formula because some of them require a working database from another Formula or in the root of the system. That is, it is very difficult to write such auto-tests, which would check workability, and really it was possible to run them when building the formula.

Yes, the workaround is to make own repository with Homebrew Tap but better to have it in main repository when users could setup software without any additional action.

[mikemcquaid]

I had literally never written any Ruby before contributing to Homebrew and now I write it for a living. This was when there was no documentation and now there is lots (https://docs.brew.sh, https://rubydoc.brew.sh).

I'm really not convinced that Ruby syntax is what makes the Homebrew formula DSL non-trivial. I've written enough YAML for k8s stuff that it seems like the language is rarely the cause of misunderstanding.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

I was like what? I’m not very familiar with ruby syntax and I’ve been a mostly happy user for years. But then I realized by user you meant someone who creates formulae, not someone who just uses it to install and manage packages