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Distribute OSX release as a Homebrew formula

See original GitHub issue

As a devops type nerd, I want to be able to install and update PowerShell/OSX via the CLI, and also with my preferred packaging tool, namely Homebrew (http://brew.sh).

Yes, the the OSX native installer packages (.pkg) can be installed via CLI (with the installer command), but it requires sudo. AFAICT, PowerShell is installed to /usr/local/bin and does not require sudo at all otherwise.

Homebrew is basically the de-facto CLI package manager on OSX like choco.exe is on Windows. It does not require sudo for packages to be installed.

Instructions to create a formula: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:23
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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andyleejordancommented, Aug 18, 2016

Keep in mind that we probably need https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/533 too (at least to do it right! in the short term we can install dotnet locally to build).

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analogrelaycommented, Aug 18, 2016

This would be awesome. I’d jump in to build the formula but I don’t want to stomp on a possible official homebrew tap. I hope we can get this soon! I want brew install powershell 😃