homebrew-core VS osxfuse

Compare homebrew-core vs osxfuse and see what are their differences.

homebrew-core

šŸ» Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (by Homebrew)

osxfuse

FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems (by osxfuse)
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homebrew-core osxfuse
130 74
13,136 8,481
1.1% 0.6%
10.0 3.1
4 days ago 13 days ago
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homebrew-core

Posts with mentions or reviews of homebrew-core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
  • Pyenv ā€“ lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
    If I pin a version of Python, isn't that going to wreck any tooling that depends on it? Unless you're saying have multiple versions of Python installed.

    This is practically the only remaining annoyance I have with the Python ecosystem (relative imports aside). I use some tools, like Glances [0] whose formula relies on a much newer version (3.12) than the actual package requires (3.8) [1].

    So when there's a Python update, all of those update as well. I thought I'd fixed this with pipx, but in a way that's worse, because the venvs it builds depend on a specific version of Python existing, which doesn't work well with brew always wanting to upgrade it.

    I want a stable, system-level Python that I don't touch, don't add packages to, and which only exists as a dependency for anything that needs it. If an update would break a package I have installed (due to Python library deprecation, etc.), it should warn me before updating. Otherwise, I don't care, as long as any symlinks are taken care of.

    Separately, I want a stable, user-level Python that I can do whatever I want to. Nothing updates it automatically. I can accomplish this by compiling Python and using `make altinstall`, but if there's a better way, I'd love to hear about it.

    [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/20e744191e74d...

    [1]: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
    > right, but now you know even less about your setup when you some roadblock

    This is the same with a binary though. And with homebrew, you can't follow patches or flags used or if they change.

    - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad...

    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
    Thanks for taking the time. Can you help me understand? Because I didn't get this from the devs.

    Just looking at a random formula, am I correct to understand that this will use python 3.10 and NOT 3.12?[0] I understand ones like this[1] where there's a note about the issue with newer versions.

    What I'm trying to understand is if the python version is specified by the formula or it will default to the newest version. If it requires it to be specified in the formula then doesn't this make it contingent on the maintainer upgrading it every python version? I didn't verify [0], but it looks like it should work with later versions of python, and it it is still using 3.10 then isn't that essentially the maintainers "fault?" Because that's my concern. I can't see how something like this stays updated when it requires a maintainer to update. Seems better to have a >=3.10 and then do ==3.10 if only 3.10 works (odd) or >=3.10 <3.12 if it works for 10 and 11 but not 12. Especially since formulas are often made by people that are not the package developers themselves and we're just reliant upon someone keeping up. I'd rather break upon a new version than have many old pythons installed. I know there's no perfect solution, but we're talking about failure modes. And fwiw, I'd rather it try to use the system or environment python rather than installing a unique version. It just gets confusing when you need to add dependencies for optional stuff that wasn't included in the formula and is extremely non-obvious to a new user.

    [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/12a0f6bbbeda8...

    [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/12a0f6bbbeda8...

  • Apple curl security incident 12604
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2024
  • Cowsay
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
    definitely be careful about using fortune in a corporate environment or public space if you don't know what dat files you are using or you might just get an extremely unwelcome surprise.

    I was practicing a presentation and used to use "fortune" all the time. I forget exactly what it output but I remember being absolutely mortified about what could have happened if that had popped up during an internal company tech talk.

    Kudos to brew for keeping unsuspecting people safe

    https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/3fb3c4c3e55...

  • Ask HN: Trouble with a Stargate
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024
    I'm sorry to be asking this as I find it a bit silly, but it's blocking my PR [3], so could a few of you star the project on Github [1] to get my PR to run?

    [1] https://github.com/laktak/chkbit-py

    [2] https://brew.sh

    [3] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/160018

  • Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
  • Homebrew team's developer harassment. They won't remove my software?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2024
  • Adding Build Provenance to Homebrew
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023
    Reproducibleā€¦ but unsupported. Nice.

    https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/108964#issu...

  • Bitwarden Broken in Linux
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2023

osxfuse

Posts with mentions or reviews of osxfuse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

What are some alternatives?

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homebrew-ntfs-3g - homebrew tap for ntfs-3g

ytmdl - A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.

hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

macOS-GateKeeper-Helper - Simple macOS GateKeeper script.

btrfs - WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows