Homebrew formula for ble.sh

[Okeanos]

I wanted to start using atuin.sh and they recommend ble.sh as companion. Sadly, ble.sh isn't offered as brew formula yet.

That's why I created a blesh formula available here.

Because of the way releases work with ble.sh I suggest installing with --HEAD as argument to get the latest version.

I suppose I could've also made it a cask and use the nightly tarball version as well, however, from some minimal tests this version appears to work okay and I don't plan on changing this for now.

Depending on interest it might make sense to upstream this either to homebrew-core or have it provided as a companion repo next to ble.sh itself.

Just wanted to share this. If any of you find it helpful: awesome. If there's stuff that needs to/should be changed, please let me know!

[akinomyoga]

Depending on interest it might make sense to upstream this either to homebrew-core or have it provided as a companion repo next to ble.sh itself.

Another user submitted a formula to homebrew-core five years ago at Homebrew/homebrew-core#51308. At that time, they rejected the inclusion because necessary conditions weren't satisfied:

Originally posted by @BrewTestBot in Homebrew/homebrew-core#51308 (comment):

• GitHub repository not notable enough (<30 forks, <30 watchers and <75 stars)

Now all three conditions (>= 30 forks, >= 30 watchers, and >= 75 stars) seem to be satisfied, so I guess they can accept it if you submit it. According to a recent comment on another PR, the conditions seem to be slightly changed (> 30 forks instead of >= 30 forks, etc.) but essentially the same.

[Okeanos]

I'll update the formula accordingly. Thank you for the feedback :)

Done! Formula installation location now looks like this:

$ tree /usr/local/opt/blesh
/usr/local/opt/blesh
├── INSTALL_RECEIPT.json
├── LICENSE.md
├── README.md
├── sbom.spdx.json
└── share
    └── blesh
        ├── ble.sh
...

$ tree /usr/local/Cellar/blesh/
/usr/local/Cellar/blesh/
└── HEAD-d4c812b
    ├── INSTALL_RECEIPT.json
    ├── LICENSE.md
    ├── README.md
    ├── sbom.spdx.json
    └── share
        └── blesh
            ├── ble.sh
...

[akinomyoga]

Thanks!

Maybe you could use #{opt_pkgshare} instead of #{opt_prefix}/share/blesh (but I'm not a macOS user, and I'm unfamiliar with Homebrew, so please confirm that it works).

[Okeanos]

I am afraid #{opt_pkgshare} is not a documented variable within brew formulae :(. A good suggestion nonetheless and obviously would have been preferable to the current hard coded /share/blesh.

Even the terminology section doesn't mention anything better/else than the opt prefix.

I will replace the trailing, hard-coded /blesh with /#{name}, though, to make it behave more similar to pkgshare.

Thanks a lot for the very speedy responses and your suggestions, much appreciated!

[akinomyoga]

Thank you!

[Okeanos]

Concerning upstreaming this formula to homebrew-core: I would like to wait for the new release that you talked about and verify that the update behavior of brew works as expected. For me, there's no rush – so if it takes a couple of weeks more to get the release out of the door, perfectly fine. My tap + formula work [for me] in the meantime.

Afterwards I don't see a problem with proposing to put this formula into the official homebrew list.

I ultimately just want to make sure there's as little maintenance burden as possible on this thing by verifying behavior upfront.