> A special version for users that cannot access the App Store. It won’t receive automatic updates. I will update it here once a year.
Looks nice but not sure why you don't just put it on Homebrew instead of updating the non-app store version once a year.
And when you look at Homebrew users versus App Store users they are like separate circles on a Venn diagram.
I am also building a Mac app and will definitely make sure it's on Homebrew. Crazy not to.
Oh boy, I have some unfortunate news for you. The whole ethos of Homebrew is exactly that, userland maintaining formula for software they want... I promise you Microsoft is not maintaining the casks for their stuff. 99% of all formula in the Homebrew repo is maintained solely by volunteers unaffiliated with all of the software.
My question for you is why are you replying to everyone insistent on demanding that Sindre do all this for you, someone who will not be using the software anyways? What is your angle here? You're coming off super entitled.
You claim it's so easy, just a few minutes, yet you spent more time telling everyone how easy it is for him to do, than just doing it yourself.
Can we stop expecting developers to jump to every little request given for a free app?
I am not sure why this is contentious at all, except for the sake of arguing. Homebrew packages are usually maintained by the creator, not the user.
> Why should the users perform free labor for the creator, while the creator gets to keep all of their paid version's revenue?
It's clear you have no desire to use this at all, you've mentioned many times in this whole parent thread that you would rather use ItsyCal even over this because it has more features... So what exactly is your goal with these demands? Just to make Sindre do something you want?
> It is not on the user to add it to Homebrew, it is on the creator.
No it's not. The creator has no obligation to do anything for anyone, paid or free. Stop being entitled.
Again, you haven't answered why users should do it for free while it's a traffic funnel for a paid app. Seems you know this creator personally and support them, but I don't, and most users don't either, and many users use Homebrew so if they don't see it on there, they likely won't use it either. It's not entitlement, it's simply how it works. You wouldn't go into a store who said their inventory is only updated once a year while a store right next to it is updated regularly. Nothing to do with the quality of products in said store, but they're just not the target customer.
All this to again say why it's a point of contention to ask, not even why it's not on Homebrew, which wasn't even my point, but why they're expending extra effort to update it once a year when they could make their lives a lot easier by adding it to Homebrew and having it be done automatically.
It seems odd to place the onus on users to help drive traffic for a paid product.