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legacy-homebrew

💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)

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💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)

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This week on Hacker News

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year161 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2009-08-31 14:14:36 UTC to 2025-04-22 21:14:41 UTC.

01020302009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20092010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 19 mentions; 0 submissions, 19 comments2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 2 submissions, 14 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 24 mentions; 0 submissions, 24 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 1 submissions, 13 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 33 mentions; 4 submissions, 29 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 1 submissions, 31 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 3 submissions, 9 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20092009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC19019
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16214
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC24024
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14113
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC33429
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC32131
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1239
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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RobertLowe·Aug 10, 2011
Just a note about GCC/XCode on Lion (esp. if using homebrew): The default GCC installed by Xcode is no longer GCC you expect it too be, it's actually a hybrid of LLVM and GCC /usr/bin/gcc --version i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 A non-hybrid version in installed at: /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 --version i686-apple-darwin11-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 It's a rather important change to GCC on mac, it even broke `brew install mysql` for awhile: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6277 Some great hackers found out it was linking to Apple's internal pthread library. Code-softly hackers.
In 2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment
evilduck·Aug 8, 2011
If you're coming from a linux environment, you're probably used to having Apt or Yum available. OSX has no built in package manager so you've either got go out and find compiled binaries somewhere or install from source, both of which are tedious and searching the web for it is time consuming vs. the `brew install wget` commands that you can probably guess and it'll take care of installation in the background while you do something else. See here for stuff you can install with one command: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula...
In Return of the Mac (2005)
Groxx·Jul 31, 2011
Since I have your attention temporarily, I figure you should also know about this: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6732 I had errors when I ran `brew update`. Looks like it might hit most people who have installed it recently, so possibly all new clean-install Lion users (I haven't checked the commit history to see when it might have started, and it could be related to a version of Git anyway). edit: and thanks for the write-up! I found a few things I didn't know about :)
In Quick Python/Developer tips for OSX Lion
stock_toaster·Jul 15, 2011
I agree, and to go further, even _if_ a non-developer did on github (maybe higher in the search rankings), for many popular projects you can generally find the consumer facing url via the "homepage" link. Example: https://github.com/rack/rack homepage url points to http://rack.rubyforge.org/ https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri => http://nokogiri.org/ https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew => http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ https://github.com/joyent/node => http://nodejs.org/ etc, etc. It also seems fairly common to put the 'consumer' url near the top or bottom of the README.
In Code.Google.com now supports git
daxelrod·May 2, 2011
Here's what I did: First, get the latest version of Xcode that's compatible with your OS. You can find older versions of Xcode by clicking on "Developer Tools" on the right side of this page: http://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/w... (you may need a free Apple developer account). sceaga has a branch for Tiger and another branch for PPC, I happened to be using Tiger on PPC, so I picked the Tiger branch. From https://github.com/sceaga/homebrew , you want to click "Switch Branches" on the left, choose your branch, then click "Download on the right. Or, just click one of these: https://github.com/sceaga/homebrew/tarball/powerpc https://github.com/sceaga/homebrew/tarball/tiger I opted to install into my home directory, rather than /usr/local, so to get it into place, all I had to do was extract the tarball, put the result
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ing directory where I wanted it (I called it "brew"), and then add $HOME/brew/bin and $HOME/brew/sbin to my $PATH. If you want it in /usr/local, see the instructions at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation , but in the "curl" line, replace their URL with the one you picked above. You should now be able to type "brew" and see its usage message. At this point, "brew install" worked for me, except that it wasn't chmodding binaries as executable. At the end of installations, it was giving a bunch of messages like "file: invalid option -- h". This appears to be because my 10.4 PPC version of "file" doesn't support "-h". To fix this, I installed the gnu version instead: brew install libmagic chmod +x ~/brew/Cellar/libmagic/5.04/bin/file brew link libmagic #libmagic doesn't add gnu "file" to your PATH without this command, because it doesn't want to override the OS-provided "file" After that, homebrew seems to work, with the following caveats: 1. "brew update" (which updates the package manager itself) will try to update from the non-PPC, upstream version of homebrew. I just don't use this command. 2. "brew doctor" complains that my gcc is too old (because I can't use the latest Xcode) and can't seem to detect that I have X11 installed, even though I do. I've also found the people in #machomebrew on irc.freenode.net to be a helpful bunch, although not many have experience with homebrew on PPC. Let me know how it goes!
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