Shame on you, Homebrew, for effectively killing FOSS apps from casks.

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    1 year ago

    Deprecating now will give a decent lead time for users using it to come up with another solution or adjust their workflows.

    The adjusted solution/workflow: use something other than homebrew

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        1 year ago

        By doing what homebrew currently does when you pass the --no-quarantine flag, which is call xattr.

        Note that I’d probably support removing --no-quarantine if Apple’s notarization service was free.

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            1 year ago

            Yes, but you can still compile the code yourself. It’s only problematic for binary distribution. This is basically a question of balancing security vs. freedom I suppose.

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                Difference is compiling an app from source for Android is not really feasible on Android devices, whereas doing so on macOS is literally built into the package managers for macOS and is generally pretty trivial beyond it taking more time.

                Also, macOS doesn’t prevent you from running the apps entirely.