Homebrew and package management (Interview)

Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, auto-updates, the growth of the Homebrew community and how it has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, and more.

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Featuring:

• Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Homebrew 1.0.0!
• The Changelog #35: Homebrew with Max Howell
• Homebrew — The missing package manager for macOS
• Homebrew on GitHub
• Homebrew/brew on GitHub
• Contributors to Homebrew/brew
• Homebrew Discourse
• Welcome – Gentoo Linux
• KDE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Qt | Cross-platform software development for embedded & desktop
• Software Freedom Conservancy Welcomes Homebrew as a Member Project
• Linuxbrew

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!