Homebrew formula disabled

[timnovis]

steps

Try and install giter8 with homebrew as per the docs - brew install giter8

problem

Command outputs Error: giter8 has been disabled!

Looks like the formula has been disabled: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/giter8.rb#L11

expectation

giter8 should have installed successfully

[eed3si9n]

Looks like it was disabled here - Homebrew/homebrew-core#58850

[anip-patel-exa]

I am also hitting the same issue. Is there any workaround for this?

[eed3si9n]

The work around would be something like

curl -L https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/foundweekends/giter8/giter8-bootstrap_2.12/0.13.1/giter8-bootstrap_2.12-0.13.1.sh > ~/bin/g8
chmod +x ~/bin/g8

[MrPowers]

The new command is sbt new scala/scala-seed.g8.

You can also run brew edit giter8, delete the disable! because: "fetches unversioned dependencies at runtime" line and rerun brew install giter8, as described here.

@xuwei-k - do you want to get this back in homebrew or should we just encourage users to use the sbt new command?

[benhutchison]

Does sbt new support local testing of templates? That's useful when developing them.

[eed3si9n]

https://github.com/sbt/sbt-giter8-resolver/blob/master/src/main/scala/sbt/Giter8TemplateResolver.scala supports file://

[danielRicardo]

@MrPowers I know many non-Scala developers who use Giter8 to generate templates for all kinds of projects. A python team shouldn't have to install sbt to use Giter8 templates (as long as they're not developing other templates)

[TonioGela]

Coursier based and "curl based" installation methods were added to the Setup page of documentation and the brew one and conscript one were removed, since they are working methods to install giter8 and as @danielRicardo "asked" they do not depend on having an sbt installation locally.

[TonioGela]

@eed3si9n Is there the intention to restore the homebrew formula?

[eed3si9n]

I'm not really interested in trying to convince Homebrew core what they should and shouldn't host. I guess we could make our own tap (?) if there's a huge demand for it?

[TonioGela]

I think 2 kinds of people might want to install giter8:

• Scala Developers. But in 95% of cases (sorry Mill, Maven, Seed and Gradle users), they already have an sbt installation locally that can supersede giter8 using sbt new.
• Non-Scala Developers (like @danielRicardo pointed out) that might want to use giter8 as a standalone templating tool. In this case, my previous answer applies: there's Coursier, and there's the curl method. Both if you're on Mac or not.

Creating a tap will force us to maintain it and keep it aligned to the other 2 methods that ATM depend only on publishing CI (so they're more "live" than a homebrew tap). I do agree that the need for a tap depends on the demand but maybe in the meantime we can submit a PR to Homebrew to change the message from Error: giter8 has been disabled! to something like Error: giter8 has been disabled, please refer to the Setup page http://www.foundweekends.org/giter8/setup.html for alternative installation methods?

[TonioGela]

I've opened this PR to change the error message to

Error: giter8 has been disabled because it fetches unversioned dependencies at runtime.
Please refer to the setup page http://www.foundweekends.org/giter8/setup.html for alternative installation methods!

when someone tries to install giter8 from brew.
If it gets accepted I propose to close this issue since there are alternative installation methods as said before.

[TonioGela]

Homebrew maintainers closed the issue without much discussion here. IMHO we might consider asking for the removal.