HomeBrew VS winget-cli

Install Vagrant using Homebrew:

Thanks for the kind words <3

Rewrite in Rust: never :)

A non-Ruby frontend may be possible but, fundamentally, the Formula DSL is Ruby and we couldn't feasibly move to another language without breaking backwards compatibility with everything.

The "update tons of stuff you never asked for": we're working on this: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/19202

Performance in general: we're doing what we can to improve it wherever possible. Ruby makes this harder but it is getting better rather than worse at this point.

> I wonder if you can get away with not doing parallel downloads, but just keep the sequential downloads going in the background while it is installing a package?

I could be wrong, but I believe multiple people, including maintainers, have looked into exactly that :-)

(I also need to correct myself: there is some work ongoing into concurrent downloads[1]. That work hasn't hit `brew install` yet, where I imagine the question of concurrent traffic volume will become more pressing.)

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/18278

Install glibc and patchelf using brew (Homebrew), or build from source, or use a prebuilt binary (if available). This guide uses brew. Also you can see this.

Install brew

In past personal projects, and in my most recent role, I've used Docker for dependency management to avoid the "works on my machine" scenario. I also just like keeping dependencies off my machine, but for this project I opted not to use containers given my lack of dependencies. I used Homebrew for all my needs :).

Install Homebrew if it's not already available on your computer.

# ./launch.sh: #!/bin/bash if ! command -v brew &> /dev/null; then echo "❌ Homebrew is not installed. Install it from https://brew.sh/" exit 1 fi if ! command -v docker &> /dev/null; then echo "⚙️ Installing Docker..." brew install --cask docker fi if ! command -v php &> /dev/null; then echo "🐘 Installing PHP..." brew install [email protected] fi

Homebrew installed (https://brew.sh).

Winget seems to finally do something similar for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

Although the "repo" is a list of manifest files that include download sources on GitHub and Sourceforge (and maybe others). So even if there is an approval process it seems to be quite vulnerable to including malware.

Microsoft seems to use a similar bot themselves, not sure how it is called or whether it is OSS: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/4765#issuecom...

It's not only tedious but also gets complicated because sometimes --id doesn't work as expected, as mentioned [here] the famous pnpm.pnpm (https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/4751). So, you often need to use --name instead of --id.

For instance, on a Windows system, you would use winget and run the following command: winget install s3scanner. Your output would look like this:

The Winget module is a wreck. The way it is designed, unfortunately, neither fits the object oriented approach of PowerShell nor follows the PowerShell guidelines for cmdlets.

For instance https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3820 or https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3231.

Step 1: Download under this link Please use either link ok: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/ https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases The file will look like Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

For both Windows 10 and 11, every application and system package gets installed via winget import --import-file {{JSON-file}}, when possible. It's shipped as a component of the App Installer package, which is supplied with Windows 11 but optional for Windows 10.

REALIX HWiNFO: https://www.hwinfo.com/

GitHub

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3832

You're correct here, and that's exactly the reason Winget is a package manager, as dependency management is part of teh stable release since version 1.6.3133: