Create Homebrew formula for Fontist

[strogonoff]

It could be a shell file that checks for Ruby and other dependencies, and runs the installation.

A single command that fetches that file over HTTPS and pipes into /bin/bash could be given on landing page, similar to what Homebrew does. (Note: raises stakes as far as landing page security.)

[ronaldtse]

Ping @abunashir have time for this? Thanks!

(and we will need to update documentation for this)

[abunashir]

Hi @strogonoff - I'm not sure if I understand it correctly, do we want a deliver this gem as homebrew formula or do you mean having a CLI so the user can possibly run fontist install [font_name]?

cc: @ronaldtse

[ronaldtse]

@abunashir he meant whether there is a user friendly way to install fontist. Homebrew provides a copy/paste link that allows immediate install.

[abunashir]

If I understands correctly, @alexeymorozov already added the CLI here - https://github.com/fontist/fontist#install-1, does that resolves this issue, can we close this now?

cc: @ronaldtse

[ronaldtse]

@abunashir this issue was for the installation of Fontist itself, which requires Ruby. I wonder if we could adopt some script from Homebrew for macOS and Linux?

[abunashir]

@ronaldtse: We can expose it as a Homebrew formula, but then again Homebrew itself requires the ruby runtime. Do you think it would add any other benefits for the users to install it through brew rather than installing as gem?

[ronaldtse]

I suppose we can just do something like this:
https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/asciidoctor

Asciidoctor is a Ruby gem but also available via Homebrew:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/asciidoctor.rb

[alexeymorozov]

Very clear example, can do the same for fontist.

[abunashir]

@alexeymorozov: Any update on this one? Did you already implemented it?

[alexeymorozov]

@abunashir Nope, currently no work is done on this task. It's only scheduled.