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by tgkokk 4176 days ago
For the request on the homepage for a Homebrew formula:

From [1]:

> Homebrew generally won't accept libraries that can be installed correctly with `pip install foo`.

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h...

2 comments

Example: duplicity[0] is available via homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

Yes. But pgcli is not a python library, it's an application that happens to be written in python.

> Homebrew is happy to accept applications that are built in Python, whether the apps are available from PyPI or not.

Example: duplicity[0] is available via homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

Example: duplicity[0] is available via homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

Example: duplicity[0] is available via homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

Example: duplicity[0] is available via homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

Example: duplicity[0] is available via homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

Example: duplicity[0] is available via homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

Example: duplicity[0] is available via homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

Example: duplicity[0] is available via homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...