A Cask is like a Formula in Homebrew except it describes how to download and install a binary application. To learn how to write a Cask, see CONTRIBUTING.md. For a complete reference, see CASK_LANGUAGE_REFERENCE.md.
The idea is for each Cask to encapsulate and automate the story of how a given application should be installed. Join us in building up a community-maintained collection of Casks that is striving to become the standard way that hackers install Mac apps.
Yes, yes, yes! Please fork/pull request to update Casks, add features and clean up documentation! Anything you can do to help out is very welcome.
It's also pretty darn easy to create Casks, so please build more of them for the software you use. And if homebrew-cask doesn't support the packaging format of your software, please open an issue and we can get it working together.
The whole idea is to build a community-maintained list of easily installable packages, so the community part is important! Every little bit counts.
Yes! See alternate_cask_taps.md.
Some applications such as Thunderbird or Firefox provides many localized versions. However, currently only English versions are provided in the main repository. Additional languages may be available in the [https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-versions](homebrew-version repository). We are aiming to find a better system to manage multiple languages and versions.
brew cask list shows that a package is installed, but when I try to do brew cask uninstall, it tells me that the package is not installed. Help!
This is a problem with the bookkeeping in the current implementation of Cask, which gets confused if a cask is updated after installation. For now, use the brew cask uninstall --force to uninstall these packages.