Cargo: Make cargo repo compatible with homebrew formulae
A colleague is interested in trying to help write a homebrew formula for installing cargo, so that brew install cargo will work.
One hurdle that my colleague pointed out is that the homebrew policies for acceptable formulae requires that stable versions be tagged in the upstream project repository. I'm not a cargo developer, so perhaps the plan is indeed to start using the tag mechanism once we have hit a version beyond 0.0.1-pre, but we have not yet hit a stable version, and thus no tags yet exist.
Anyway, I figured I would open this ticket to track any effort towards homebrew compatibility, with the intention that this ticket be closed once brew install cargo does something plausible. :)
pnkfelix
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A colleague is interested in trying to help write a homebrew formula for installing cargo, so that brew install cargo will work.
For reference, I am the colleague. :frog: I'm happy to prepare to write the brew formula (etc) and act as a maintainer if the upstream requirements are met.
phrawzty
on 6 Nov 2014
I'd love to get this working! Is there anything that the repo needs to do other than have a tag somewhere inside it? I could just make a tag and bump the version number slightly in that case!
alexcrichton
on 6 Nov 2014
Once of the requirements for inclusion in the base Homebrew channel is having tagged "stable releases" for the repo in question. For projects that don't have stable releases (i.e. always install HEAD), there is a "headonly" tap; however, this is generally considered bad form, so reliably tagging stable releases would be the best bet.
phrawzty
on 7 Nov 2014
Hi,
I see that this was closed, however, #995 does not fulfil this bug. To be clear, for brew compatibility each stable release must be (git) tagged as appropriate; I note that the cargo tag list contains only 0.0.1-pre.
phrawzty
on 12 Dec 2014
+1
schickling
on 21 Jan 2015
it sounds like the fundamental problem here has not been resolved. @alexcrichton please reopen.
pnkfelix
on 21 Jan 2015
Current workaround:
$ brew cask install cargo
+1
rogeriopvl
on 3 Feb 2015
Has this been done yet? Because brew install cargo still doesn't work afaict.
quadrupleslap
on 20 Feb 2015
to my knowledge it is still unaddressed.
pnkfelix
on 20 Feb 2015
+1
lepture
on 4 Mar 2015
+1
bwhitty
on 14 Mar 2015
+1
fiag
on 17 Mar 2015
+1
pwnall
on 23 Mar 2015
:+1:
nickbroon
on 6 Apr 2015
+1
iyedb
on 12 Apr 2015
+1
mbaltrusitis
on 27 Apr 2015
still can't brew install cargo. was expecting brew install rust to install cargo as well, but alas.
parkr
on 28 Apr 2015
brew install rust now installs cargo as of https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commit/1be7f90419594fed9bbd035336239ed5e7c4a032
archshift
on 6 May 2015
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brew install rustnow installs cargo as of https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commit/1be7f90419594fed9bbd035336239ed5e7c4a032