Want to submit package updates to homebrew?
Don't want to find packages that need updating by hand?
This is a script to help automate the review process for over a thousand packages!
This is python3 code. Install python3 (and pip3) from brew like so:
brew install python3
Now you can install BeautifulSoup, a python3 html parser the scripts rely on:
pip3 install beautifulsoup4
Goto the terminal and type 'python3' to start a new shell. Then type 'import bs4'.
If this looks like what you see (no angry messages about errors), you're good to go!
$ python3
Python 3.3.0 (default, Nov 3 2012, 09:45:08)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.1 ((tags/Apple/clang-421.11.66))] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bs4
>>>
Currently hydrometer supports the following options:
-s, --sourceforge: scan for sourceforge updates (~600 packages)
-g, --github: scan for github tag updates (~750 packages)
-c, --googlecode: scan for googlecode updates (~150 packages)
-n, --gnuftp: scan for gnu ftpmirror updates (~80 packages sans aspell)
You're more than welcome to run the script interactively, but you'll probably want something like:
./hydrometer.py -s > sourceforge_updates.txt
The end result will be a file that contains:
1) a line from sourceforge packages
2) hydrometer's best guess for the corresponding package's latest version/downloads
3) some spacing to keep things sane
Now, you just need to look through sourceforge_updates.txt for packages that need updating.
Update the package. Submit a patch. Have a beer to celebrate. :3
The googlecode/github parsers could be made less verbose. More error checking, perhaps. Things are hardcoded to /usr/local.