Homebrew packaging

[kdeldycke]

Hi @jivanpal ! Your utility might be useful in a middle of APFS volume corruption.

Is there any plan to have that utility packaged into homebrew?

If not I can make a try but I need to have it revisionned and released. Would you consider adding a version number and tag it? So I can have the Homebrew's formula point to a stable release.

[jivanpal]

This project is currently nowhere near suitable for general use, IMO. There's not much functionality yet, and what functionality does exist is either lacking, unstable, or not yet documented well. Apple has recently updated the APFS specification, and I am planning to rewrite the toolset in C++ in the coming weeks to make my life easier and hopefully provide something more useful, or at least easier to use.

You're more than welcome to package the toolset for Homebrew, but I doubt the Homebrew maintainers would appreciate having an alpha piece of software in their repository. If/when this toolset becomes more fleshed out, I will definitely consider publishing a Homebrew script. Thanks for the suggestion and offer, but at least for now, in the project's unversioned state, I think the build instructions suffice 🙂

[kdeldycke]

Thanks @jivanpal for the status update! Indeed, the Homebrew project is quite strict on its criterion regarding stability. I'll keep an eye on the upcoming evolutions.

In the mean time, I'll keep digging into my APFS issues with a couple of other tools.

BTW, I had no issue compiling apfs-tools on latest Catalina release. The APFS landscape is in critical need of tools and you did a great service to the community sharing your findings. Thanks again for apfs-tools! 👍

[grantd77]

Hello, I am very much looking forward to a fully working tool.
I accidentally corrupted my APFS drive from my previous machine, MacBook Pro Early 2011, and am keen to get the data back and then reuse the drive for another use.

Thank you for being awesome :)