Adding Mellel to the Homebrew package manager

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joewiz
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Adding Mellel to the Homebrew package manager

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Congratulations on the release of Mellel 4! I'm a long-time user and was happy to upgrade as soon as I saw the new version was out. I've been using it to update my CV from 10 years ago, and can see the interface and features have advanced, but the app still feels solid and snappy.

Is anyone on the Mellel team familiar with Homebrew (http://brew.sh)? It's a community-maintained command line package manager for the Mac - a tool for automating the installation of applications. I would like to submit a new "cask" for Mellel, which would allow anyone to install the latest version of Mellel via the following command:

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brew cask install mellel
Homebrew would take this command, download the Mellel DMG installer, mount it, copy the app to the Applications folder, and unmount the DMG. Then Mellel would be installed in /Applications/Mellel.app. The tool also handles uninstallation of apps as well as reinstallation.

But to create this "cask" I need to have a reliable URL for downloading the Mellel DMG installer. Either, this can be a URL that doesn't change and always fetches the latest version, or it can be a version-specific URL (i.e., a changing URL where the version is in a predictable place), in which case I would need to keep the "cask" updated with each release of Mellel - in which case we'd ideally have an RSS or Atom feed where new releases are announced. I wasn't able to find either of these - an unchanging download URL for the Mellel DMG installer or an RSS/Atom feed with new version announcements that could be used to keep up with the latest URL to Mellel.

Please let me know if you have any questions. I'd be happy to facilitate this process.
Avner
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Re: Adding Mellel to the Homebrew package manager

Post by Avner »

Thank you for the suggestion, but at the moment we prefer not to have the link available as part of the Homebrew package.
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joewiz
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Re: Adding Mellel to the Homebrew package manager

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Alright, thanks for your reply.
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