Fd: Add a homebrew formula for fd

[erf]

Add a homebrew formula for fd.

[sharkdp]

Thank you for the suggestion.

I don't have access to a MacOS system, so it's hard for me to test this. Also, I don't know how homebrew formulas work.

[erf]

I have a macOS, but i have not created a brew formula before and not sure how much time i can spend on this issue right now. I might be able to look into it later, or maybe someone else will have a go at it if you leave it open?

[sharkdp]

Sure, I will leave it open. Thank you.

[gsquire]

If you are worried about cargo installs falling out of date, you can use this subcommand to check.

[douglascamata]

PR to add the homebrew formula open.

[sharkdp]

Thank you very much! I've just released v1.1.0, in case you still want to include this.

[douglascamata]

Updated the version there and fixed some issues commented by maintainers. Should be merged soon.

[douglascamata]

Formula was merged! o/

[sharkdp]

Cool, thank you very much!

I think we should add a note to the README (install instructions) that it is now possible to just run brew install fd, if I understand correctly(?).

[erf]

Thank you! I can confirm brew install fd works on macOS.

[chhschou]

@sharkdp I recently did brew install fd, it first tries to build rust from source then fd's dependencies. The entire install is around 30min (including compiling rust). Since there are already published packages for fd that does not require compiling, will you entertain a new homebrew formula that just install the compiled binary? ripgrep already does this here (via a custom homebrew tap that points to its github repo): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/pkg/brew/ripgrep-bin.rb

[sharkdp]

@chhschou I'm open to this idea, but I don't really have any experience with or knowledge about Homebrew. It's probably a good idea to open a new ticket to discuss this.

@douglascamata Do you have any thoughts on this? Could this potentially even be changed upstream?