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maxloh 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compat...

How does this work? AFAIK Homebrew formulae are written in Ruby [0].

Do they use some kind of Ruby parser to parse formulae?

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/26-tahoe/Form...

fny 4 months ago [–]

It uses the Homebrew API and uses its own dependency resolver and linker to pull Homebrew's precompiled packages.

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