Installation via Homebrew

[renestalder]

Would it be an option to add the dav client for Mac (or even Linux) to Homebrew? Would make installation and updating maybe easier.

[tasn]

I'd love that. Do you know what's the process for adding things to Homebrew?

[renestalder]

I never did that unfortunately. I guess one starts with creating a tap (that's like a repository for your package) and then creating a formula (that's the package).

https://docs.brew.sh/How-to-Create-and-Maintain-a-Tap (that's seems to be the easy part)
https://docs.brew.sh/Formula-Cookbook (more complex, involves Ruby)

[tasn]

Thanks for the info. I just thought about it a bit more and on Mac you can just brew install python3 (or something like that) and then pip install etesync-dav.
Probably easiest.

[renestalder]

Oh okay, makes sense. I manually put the binary to my usr/local/bin and found it a bit cumbersome. Especially now I have to find out how to start it in the background at login and probably have to dive into launchd stuff. Just wondered if that can be made easier. I recently installed some homebrew apps which came with a launchd plist files. So after installation via brew, it displayed a command to copy paste in the terminal to make the app startup at login and found that quite a nice way. But probably doesn't make a difference if it's installed via brew or pip and doesn't have anything to do with that.

[tasn]

Ah yes, this sucks, though orthogonal to homebrew. I need to set up the automatic launch on startup for every platform (at the moment you'd need to do it manually) and etc. I need to just create a native macOS .app, which is possible with PyInstaller. Just need to set it up.

[porg]

#57 is about the same subject like this issue.