Feature: homewbrew formula

[pshirshov]

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Hi!

It would be very nice to have a homebrew formula, current way with shell script installation is very inconvenient for automatic provisioning.

[helpermethod]

Hi @pshirshov!

Using brew for installing SDKMAN! sounds like a good idea in theory but seems to pose a few problems in practice:

• brew discourages tools that update itself (like SDKMAN! does)
• brew by design never modifies files outside HOMEBREW_PREFIX, so you would have to manually modify your .bash_profile to source SDKMAN's init script

The main problem I see is that people will do a brew install sdkman but (somehow understandably) skip the second step.

asdf, another popular version manager, describes the problem here.

[pshirshov]

brew discourages tools that update itself (like SDKMAN! does)

Though many packages do that.

brew by design never modifies files outside HOMEBREW_PREFIX, so you would have to manually modify your .bash_profile to source SDKMAN's init script

It's possible to add a post-install message to a homebrew package. E.g. try to install JDK on Catalina - and brew will tell you what steps you must take in order to get it working.

[asmaier]

Why not simply add sdkman as brew cask ? https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/doc/development/adding_a_cask.md

[marc0der]

The main problem here is what @helpermethod stated above. SDKMAN updates itself, we would first have to do some development to disable this behaviour for brew installations. Also, sdkman has all it's files in the home folder, so it will probably be a problem for brew to manage these.

[asmaier]

But I can install for example the Google Chrome browser as cask. It also updates itself and does all kinds of things. I don't think the self-update feature is a blocker for implementing sdkman for brew cask.

[felipecrs]

References Homebrew/brew#10167.

[jayvdb]

Perhaps someone can create a custom tap for this in their own repo? It doesnt need to be perfect to be useful.

[benkeil]

Any news on this?

[helpermethod]

I guess now that SDKMAN! is distributed as an SDK itself, that should be doable. Wdyt @marc0der?

[marc0der]

Sure. SDKMAN still updates itself once installed, so we probably need a config to turn that off. Also, during installation, we do a bunch of stuff like populating the /var folder and other initialisation tasks.

[benkeil]

You can write a cask.

[marc0der]

@benkeil Nope, not me. But maybe you can write that cask 😄

[helpermethod]

@benkeil Work on an initial Homebrew tap has started but requires some minor changes in sdkman-cli itself.

[ironfish]

What happened to this tap. I used it to install SDKMAN and now it's gone?

[helpermethod]

Hi @iron,

we are currently moving the tap over to the official repository, and in the process I've made the repository private. I'll make it public until the migration is finished.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

[ironfish]

Thank you, very much appreciated.

[helpermethod]

There is now an official Homebrew Tap for SDKMAN! updated automatically with every release.

Installation instructions can be found here:

https://github.com/sdkman/homebrew-tap

[marc0der]

@helpermethod Thanks for all your effort. Fantastic work!