publish in homebrew

[dherman]

We should publish Mac installers as formulae in homebrew.

[twokul]

I feel like I got the formula to a decent place and we can start talking about it.

Spoiler: I'm new to Rust/Cargo and how the build system works don't yell at me for doing silly things 😬

Name

There is already a cask package called "notion", see here. I'd say we can name ours notion-cli, or we can keep it as notion (since cask packages and regular ones have different registries).

I personally would go with notion-cli, but I'd love your thoughts @dherman.

Homebrew formula

The formula itself (snippet below) gets generated automatically by running:

brew create https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rawxzfb4fsruu14/notion-cli-0.1.0.tgz

Properties and methods like desc, homepage, depends_on, install and test were added by me. File name has to contain 0.1.0 so we don't specify it in the formula itself via version property.

I hacked together a notion-cli archive just to get started, it contains:

$ tree -L 1 homebrew
homebrew
├── Cargo.lock
├── Cargo.toml
├── build.sh
├── crates
├── install.sh
├── install.sh.in
└── src

Once the folder is downloaded, we run cargo build and then build and install scripts. From then on, notion should be available and good to go.

Also, I believe we can remove the code from install.sh.in which adds notion binary to the PATH and replace it with bin.install in the recipe.

class NotionCli < Formula
  desc "The hassle-free node.js manager"
  homepage "https://github.com/notion-cli/notion"
  url "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rawxzfb4fsruu14/notion-cli-0.1.0.tgz"
  sha256 "90f96b6c7e33593acb0dfb6917461e9dbc095f4c71bf6ea06a75b06638f4aa18"

  depends_on "rust" => :build

  def install
    system "cargo", "build", "--release"
    system "./build.sh",
           "./target/release/notion",
           "./target/release/node",
           "./target/release/launchbin",
           "./target/release/launchscript"
    system "./install.sh"
  end

  test do
    assert_equal "The hassle-free node.js manager", (system "notion -V")
  end
end

Audit

Homebrew documentation suggest we run brew audit command on a newly generated formula to make sure we adhere to their standards.

Audit showed that we are not notable enough yet:

$ brew audit --new-formula notion-cli
notion-cli:
  * GitHub repository not notable enough (<20 forks, <20 watchers and <50 stars)
Error: 1 problem in 1 formula

I'm not sure what to do about the above yet, let's discuss.

[claydiffrient]

Has anyone circled back to this? It'd be cool to get this in now since it appears that the repo is notable enough now.

[alizain]

@dherman now that this project has been renamed to volta, any plans on adding a homebrew formula?

[cowboy]

@dherman is there anything the project needs to help make this happen?

[filipekiss]

I've created a simple formula that might be a good starting point. It's available here.

The formula does not build from source but uses the tar. I wanted to make sure the installation was as close to using curl https://get.volta.sh | bash. The only thing the Formula doesn't do currently is running volta setup. Whenever I try to run volta setup during the installation process, I get an error saying that volta couldn't find any of the profiles to edit. I'm looking into it, but I have very little experience with homebrew formula

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Update: I've opened a pull-request to homebrew/homebrew-core

[filipekiss]

While working on the formula for Homebrew I've encountered an issue and I'm not sure if I should file this as a separate bug, but the installation script from brew is not able to run volta setup:

error: Could not locate user profile.
Tried $PROFILE (), ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, and ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Please create one of these and try again; or you can edit your profile manually to add '/Users/filipekiss/.volta/bin' to your PATH

Running volta setup as soon as the installation is finished works as intended.

I think this has something to do with Homebrew's superenv so I'm not sure if it's worthing pursuing this.

[filipekiss]

Anyone who has access to a macOS Catalina can try to help me debug the formula? I'm getting an error when building to Catalina during the CI step for the pull-request and I'm not able to figure out how to deal with it since I don't have access to Catalina…

[charlespierce]

It looks like this was completed some time ago thanks to @filipekiss!