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Comment by mikemcquaid | Hacker News Reader

Hi, Homebrew Project Leader here! Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions on anything related to Homebrew 4.4.0 (or Homebrew in general, really).

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Just thank you very much, Mike and the large team of maintainers you've organised!

I was reading here about GnuCash yesterday. That's an old, GUI, non-mac app, surely a bit too much hassle to try out quickly I guessed. But brew install gnucash got me running it in seconds.

You’re welcome, glad we’re able to help.

Curious how you distribute a Ruby project so widely on so many machines. What are the biggest challenges? What pointers would you give to others who want to distribute installed Ruby software to lots of different platforms?

Ideally: don’t! We distribute our own Ruby at this point so it’s not super easy. I love (and still reach for) Ruby but it’s not the easiest cross-platform dependency for something like Homebrew. Go is my go to for easy CLIs nowadays.

What would be your most important conditions for agreeing to Apple acquiring Homebrew?

Apple can't acquire Homebrew. It's an independent, non-profit open source project and community and will remain that way. We collaborate with Apple and continue to want to maintain and grow that relationship.

> We collaborate with Apple

Would love to know more about that relationship. I was under the impression that Apple (publicly) simply pretends that homebrew doesn't exist.

There’s not much to tell. They provided us with a bunch of hardware for the Apple Silicon transition and we have contacts internally for both sides to help the other.

It's great to know that Apple acknowledges the project and supports it in some capacity though. Homebrew is definitely a key reason that I am a happy MacOS user.

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