Vscodium: Add brew cask

Created on 30 Aug 2018  路  4Comments  路  Source: VSCodium/vscodium

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brew cask install vscodium works now 馃帀

Thanks for your help @MatiasConTilde (and @vitorgalvao). I will update the readme.

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I think this would be great! I don't know much about making brew casks. Because this is not "official" it would have to go into the unofficial casks, right?

I already went ahead and submitted it myself (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/51727), it wasn't that difficult after all :)

According to the Finding a Home For Your Cask guide, an Unofficial Cask is

An allegedly unmodified compiled binary, by a third-party, of a binary that has no existing build by the owner of the source code.

As VSCodium is kind of a fork (so not unmodified), and Microsoft (the owner of the source code) doesn't already build it, I think that it counts as official, but we'll have to wait for the maintainers approval to confirm.

HBC maintainer (and writer of that rule) here.

That rule only applies where the name could lead to confusion. For example, if MS didn鈥檛 provide a compiled app but you did and called it Visual Studio Code, it would fall under that rule. Basically: if by name alone a user could think they鈥檙e installing something official when it鈥檚 not, the rule comes into play. As the name is different, the issue doesn鈥檛 come up.

brew cask install vscodium works now 馃帀

Thanks for your help @MatiasConTilde (and @vitorgalvao). I will update the readme.

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