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Support installation via Homebrew

Open cthoyt opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

It would be great if it were possible to install robot with homebrew (https://brew.sh/) with a command like brew install robot. This would greatly simplify the need to putz around with the fact that ROBOT is implemented in java, picking a place for the JAR, updating your classpath/system path, etc. that are described in this section of the getting started page:

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cthoyt avatar Sep 16 '21 09:09 cthoyt

See also this older issue about packaging #827.

jamesaoverton avatar Sep 16 '21 10:09 jamesaoverton

@jamesaoverton thanks for the link, I searched the issues to see if anyone had mentioned brew/homebrew before and didn't see this

cthoyt avatar Sep 16 '21 10:09 cthoyt

@cthoyt You're right. I wanted to link the previous issue, but it does not mention homebrew, so this is not a duplicate.

Do you (or anyone reading) have experience packaging for homebrew?

jamesaoverton avatar Sep 16 '21 14:09 jamesaoverton

Not really. I tried doing it once and got a bit discouraged.

cthoyt avatar Sep 16 '21 14:09 cthoyt

The formula for Jena (another Java-based tool) might be instructive: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/jena.rb

balhoff avatar Sep 16 '21 14:09 balhoff