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Consider automating the `homebrew` publishing process
It requires querying the binaries of the last two versions and its hashes; not 🚀 science. It should be part of a tagged_release.
FWIW you could use https://github.com/Homebrew/actions/tree/master/bump-formulae for this. I have this setup in one of my libs: https://github.com/Blacksmoke16/oq/blob/master/.github/workflows/deployment.yml#L42-L51.
Yeah, I don't think we need to do anything about this. Homebrew has tools for that. And technically it's also not our core reponsibility to update the brew package. It's a 3rd party repository. Most of the last homebrew updates were posted by homebrew contributors shortly after we published the release. I expect they're already using some automation, at least for release notification.
Yea the last one was created with brew bump-formula-pr, which is essentially what that GHA uses.
And technically it's also not our core reponsibility to update the brew package.
I always kinda assumed this one was officially supported since it's always explicitly called out in the release announcement thread.
We officially endorse using the homebrew formular and support it with advice as well as contributions. But I don't think we can consider it an official distribution package. Perhaps we need to make that more clear?
The homebrew-core repository is managed and maintained by a 3rd party outside our control. So that makes it impossible for us to make any guarantees about its contents.
Using a current example: If the homebrew maintainers had decided to build the Crystal 1.8 compiler with libpcre (instead of libpcre2) - which would be against our explicit recommendation - we couldn't do anything about it.
The Crystal formular is automatically updated by the Homebrew project. There's no need to do anything on our end.