Homebrew support

[Kop3sh]

Add Formula for homebrew

Adding evil-helix directly to homebrew would make installation easier (in a single step) and can potentially increase adoption

[Kop3sh]

I can start working on this one, if the project maintainers think that this is a good addition

[Kop3sh]

I've done a bit of research and found the below resource, stating that they usually don't accept forks... any ideas/ insights ?

homebrew guideline

[usagi-flow]

Forks can be a blocker when submitting packages, unfortunately. There isn't much we can do about that besides respecting the owners' choice to exclude forks.

If we want to insist on Homebrew, we could, however, consider creating our own 3rd-party repository (which Homebrew calls "taps"). FWIW, Homebrew allows the user to easily work with 3rd-party repos using the CLI. I'm not sure if users do get binary releases though, or if they have to build Helix themselves.

On the other hand, we could also create a MacPorts package. I see the upstream Helix has a package there already.

And then there's Fink, although its repo seems to be very... minimalistic? Not even Neovim made it on the list of editor packages, so my uninformed guess would be that that might be a dead end.

[abelcha]

If you want adoption create a real product, just a reminder nobody cares about text editors config, the ones who do allready have their opinion

[tjkirch]

Looks like this was done :)

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/e/evil-helix.rb