It's 2023. Hard drive space shouldn't be an issue. Test installing the full software suite, make it work, and you know the lesser installs will all work.
Do you think “hard drive space” is the constraining factor when building and testing over 6.5k third party packages?
Do you really not see any advantage to maintainers having visibility into what packages people actually use?
How much would you be willing to pay so that Homebrew can maintain a large amount of hardware covering nearly all configurations?
Re:Homebrew 4.0.0
by justinclift on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:27AM
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As a data point, they seem to be receiving about US$2k/month via Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/homebrew
From rough memory (!), I think it was around the same when I looked ~12 months ago.
Re:Homebrew 4.0.0
by shepherdjerred on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:04AM
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$2k/mo is a terribly low figure for a piece of software that nearly every dev on macOS uses.
Re:Homebrew 4.0.0
by justinclift on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:38AM
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That US$100k seems to have arrived over the last year, and their overheads - from quickly looking over their OpenCollective expenses tab - seem to be mostly buying hardware for CI things, and a monthly GSuite bill.
It's also pretty likely they get a lot of their resources for free / sponsored too.
So, US$2k/mo might be fine (no idea).
Re:Homebrew 4.0.0
by shepherdjerred on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:03AM
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> Test installing the full software suite, make it work
Are you paying for the compute?
It’s very hard to write and maintain good software without knowing how it’s used. No package manager needs to know how you specifically use it, but aggregate data and the ability to identify scenarios it does not handle well are both very important for SW lifecycle.