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Comment by miki123211

> Build from source formulae is still pretty f*ed + I do not know if it is really feasible given that the json API lacks information there and a full on Ruby -> Rust transpiler is way out of scope. Will probably settle for automatic build system detection based on archive structure there. + Maybe do my own version of the .rb scripts but in a more general machine readable format, not .rs lol

Last I checked (which was about a year ago), Homebrew had ~7000 formulas (not including casks).

I think it would be feasible to transcribe most of them to your format of choice with AI, run the build in a loop and ask the LLM to fix errors, and reserve manual intervention for the few cases that the LLM can't fix.

parent miki123211 1 year ago

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