Created Homebrew cask for macOS -- would you like to review before submission?

[davay]

First, apologies if this is not the right place to discuss this, especially since it didn't fit any of the templates.

So I've just created a Homebrew cask to install Serial-Studio on MacOS that:

• Works on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs
• Should stay in sync with new GitHub releases, provided the naming scheme doesn't change

Commit: Homebrew/homebrew-cask@109a879

I think it's ready for submission, but I thought I should at least notify you as the creator first.

To test this I've done:

• HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1 brew install --build-from-source serial-studio: test installation (on apple silicon only though)
• brew audit --new serial-studio: per requirements
• brew style --fix serial-studio.rb: best practices
• brew livecheck serial-studio --debug: test auto-update
• Checked existing casks/PRs (just to see if somebody's already/currently making one)

Technically Homebrew is supported on Linux too, but I feel people prefer other native repos anyway, let me know if you'd like me to add that too or if this is good to go.

Thanks 🙂

[alex-spataru]

Hi @davay,

First of all, thank you so much for the work you've done! I use Homebrew a lot, but I never found the time to register my projects with it, so I really appreciate you stepping in to do that. The current code looks great—thanks again!

Regarding Linux, I’ve never used Homebrew on it either. Like you mentioned, I tend to stick with distro-specific repositories or just install the .deb/.rpm packages directly. But if you think there’s value in having it available through Homebrew on Linux, feel free to add it.

Thanks again,
Alex

[davay]

@alex-spataru The PR is checked in!

Here's the cask: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/serial-studio

No problem, it wasn't much, otoh I think the amount of support you provide is amazing, not really a Chinese speaker but this is the first project I've seen where there's support for another language even though you don't speak it yourself either

Best of luck! It's a great software 🙂