Interesting Branches

The following branches and forks are of note.

• Homebrew-alt: https://github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt

  • Repository for formulae that are not accepted into core. Does not contain the Homebrew code itself, just formulae.
  • Contains the "duplicates" and "versions" repos that used to be forks of Homebrew itself.

• Homebrew-php: https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php

  • Repository for php-related formulae. Does not contain the Homebrew code itself, just formulae.
  • This should be preferred when writing php extension, tool, and app formulae.

• Homebrew-avr: https://github.com/larsimmisch/homebrew-avr

  • Repository for formulae related to the GNU AVR toolchain (avr-gcc etc. for Arduino hackers).

• sceaga/tiger: https://github.com/sceaga/homebrew/commits/tiger

  • Provides some support for OS X 10.4

• sceaga/powerpc: https://github.com/sceaga/homebrew/commits/powerpc

  • Provides some support for PPC

• codebutler: https://github.com/codebutler/homebrew/commits/master

  • Preliminary support for GTK+ using the Quartz (native OS X) back-end

• rgabo: https://github.com/rgabo/homebrew/commits/master

  • Experimental support for download-and-install for non-source software

• paxan/linux: https://github.com/paxan/homebrew/commits/linux

  • Experimental Linux version

• rmyers/homebrew: https://github.com/rmyers/homebrew

  • Experimental Solaris version