Add to homebrew? about mirror-displays HOT 18 CLOSED

😄 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/mirrordisplays.rb

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From home-brew's Acceptable Formulae

We frown on authors submitting their own work unless it is very popular.

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We will reject formulae that seem too obscure, partly because they won’t get maintained and partly because we have to draw the line somewhere.

While this project has been stable for years and I do plan on maintaining it, I think it might be too obscure for home-brew to want me in particular to submit the formula.

However, I do have a proper 1.0 Release that should make it trivially easy for anybody else to submit a formula. Any future changes will also be released.

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Ok.

I will submit it this weekend or sooner.

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Thanks. I'm glad you're finding it useful :)

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We run pair programming in our team, so being able to quickly mirror / unmirror seamlessly from the terminal is very helpful

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@jasonm23 Any word on whether it's going to make it into homebrew?

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Sorry got sidetracked. I'll get it done tomorrow (2am here)

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Don't worry. I'm in no rush 😄

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@jasonm23 Has there been any progress on this?

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I'll set it up now.

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Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#43079

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Homebrew core says that mirror-displays is not notable enough, and as such considers it a risky proposition to add it, (they'll be the first place people go for support.)

The recommendation is to setup a tap. I suggest you host this yourself, see below for the docs.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/How-to-Create-and-Maintain-a-Tap.md

If you don't have time to do it, I can set it up for you, and then transfer the tap repo to you.

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I don't have the time at the moment, but I'm also in no hurry -- I could get to this in a couple of weeks maybe 📆 . But you're welcome to do it yourself 🙏 . Let me know if there's anything you need from me, like code changes, release tagging, etc.

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Hi,

I made a formula file for the command-line portion of this app that doesn't require the full Xcode app to be installed.
If you make a repo for the tap I can make a PR for it.

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@J-M0 Sorry for the year+ delay. What are the conventions for a tap repo? With a little more information, I could definitely get that going.

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Oh, sorry I didn't see this before I submitted the pull request to add mirror to homebrew-core. Looks like they've added mirrordisplays already, so maybe they'd be open to adding the CLI tool now as well? It might also help that you seem intent on maintaining it.

While this project has been stable for years and I do plan on maintaining it, I think it might be too obscure for home-brew to want me in particular to submit the formula.

However, I do have a proper 1.0 Release that should make it trivially easy for anybody else to submit a formula. Any future changes will also be released.

FWIW, I found this tool because it seems to be the simplest way to functionally "disable" a display on MacOS, according to this StackOverflow thread. (SwitchResX currently can't disable a display on Apple Silicon.)

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@fcanas No worries, sorry for my own delay in replying.

Making your own Homebrew tap is pretty simple:

1. Make a repository on GitHub called homebrew-<tapname> where <tapname> is what you want to name your tap.
2. On your computer run brew tap-new fcanas/<tapname> to create a skeleton for your new tap.
3. cd to your tap with cd $(brew --repository fcanas/<tapname>, add your GitHub repo as a remote named origin, and push the files Homebrew committed.

Once you do that I can make a PR to add in the Formula file I made.

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I made https://github.com/fcanas/homebrew-tap and added mirror-displays

brew install fcanas/tap/mirror-displays should install the mirror command line tool.

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