Brew meld disable

[yhru]

Hi, I don't know if doing an issue is the good place to contact you about this, but the meld install from brew is disabled since a week : https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/meld

[antoine2711]

Hi @yhru,

~~You can install a new version (v3.22.1) with brew install --cask dehesselle-meld. The repository for that is at: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/meld_macos/-/releases~~

EDIT: meld can now be install like in the past. For those who installed dehesselle-meld version, do this:

brew remove --cask dehesselle-meld
brew install --cask meld

Regards, Antoine

[mfechtner]

@yousseb Any chance to comment on this issue? The repo seems abandoned.

[artmg]

The author of this repo @yousseb has unfortunately not been able to work on maintaining it over the last couple of years, which is a shame because he had put a lot of work in, but at least he managed to attract a good following of mac folk to love using meld.

In the meantime, people have been collaborating with the upstream GNOME Meld project to try and get a macOS beta build based on the upstream code, and in fact there seem to be regular builds going into the dehesselle-meld cask, like the new v3.22.3. Please bear in mind that if you do use that cask, issues should be reported to the main upstream repo https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/issues

[mfechtner]

Thanks for sharing this. It's a pity, I liked the work of @yousseb.

[dehesselle]

@mfechtner Do you want to help keep his work alive?

[robtaylor]

@dehesselle any chance of updating the GNOME Meld docs to mention this? Also any plans for brew mainstream? thanks!

[dehesselle]

Also any plans for brew mainstream?

It's going to end up there eventually.

edit: needed to rephrase as I personally have no immediate plans

[Migelo]

Hi @yhru,

You can install a new version (v3.22.1) with brew install --cask dehesselle-meld. The repository for that is at: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/meld_macos/-/releases

Regards, Antoine

For anyone here after 21st of April 2025, the general meld cask has been switched over to dehesselle-meld. And the dehesselle-meld has been deleted.

So simply run:

brew remove --cask dehesselle-meld
brew install --cask meld

@antoine2711 I would suggest you edit your post with the new information, so that people don't get confused by dehesselle-meld not existing anymore.

[antoine2711]

@antoine2711 I would suggest you edit your post with the new information, so that people don't get confused by dehesselle-meld not existing anymore.

Did so. Thanks. I guess this issue can now be closed. @yousseb, when you have the time.

Regards, Antoine