Migrate Homebrew Cask to a separate repository #1271
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Right now, the Homebrew Cask for Zen is being hosted directly inside the
zen-browser/desktop
repository; this is not ideal. It should be moved to a separate repository, ideallyzen-browser/homebrew-browser
to keep things mostly the same.Rationale
The way things currently works means that whenever anyone runs:
they are unwittingly cloning the entire
zen-browser/desktop
repository. This is not how Homebrew is supposed to work.Third-party repositories for Homebrew Casks (or simply Taps) are only meant to host the cask you want Homebrew to track, update, and install for you (in the case for Zen, that cask is only
zen-browser
).In addition, if the
Casks/zen-browser.rb
file were to be moved to a dedicated repository, everyone would benefit of being able to use the one-argument form ofbrew tap
. So the command from above would instead become:Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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