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[Feature request] Install finch via homebrew

Open e-minguez opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

What is the problem you're trying to solve?.

Installing finch by downloading the binary is ok, but integrating it with homebrew for upgrades would be even better.

Describe the feature you'd like

Homebrew is the de facto standard to install software on OSX, so making it available to install as brew install finch would make easier for folks to install and update it.

Additional context

e-minguez avatar Nov 23 '22 13:11 e-minguez

Considering there's already an aws tap: https://github.com/aws/homebrew-tap maybe it could go there?

webframp avatar Nov 25 '22 02:11 webframp

Added a recipe to my personal tap for now, feel free to use it. Uninstall still leaves some files around in /Applications/Finch/ but that can be fixed later and doesn't seem to mess up reinstall for now. Using brew uninstall finch --zap will remove these files

webframp avatar Nov 25 '22 03:11 webframp

Thanks a lot @chenrui333 and @miccal for adding finch into homebrew cask (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/136620)! Now finch can be installed via homebrew. One thing to call out is that we are working on uninstall to do a deeper clean up, for now if you install via homebrew and would like to uninstall and clean up, the workaround is manually delete: /opt/finch/ /private/var/run/finch-lima /private/etc/sudoers.d/finch-lima

KevinLiAWS avatar Nov 30 '22 00:11 KevinLiAWS

One thing to call out is that we are working on uninstall to do a deeper clean up, for now if you install via homebrew and would like to uninstall and clean up, the workaround is manually delete: /opt/finch/ /private/var/run/finch-lima /private/etc/sudoers.d/finch-lima

let me update the zap step

chenrui333 avatar Nov 30 '22 18:11 chenrui333