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Add a last_reviewed_date to docs metadata 
- At the AGM we formed an ad-hoc documentation working group.
- One of our ideas was that we should have a last reviewed date for
  documentation, so that we can periodically implement a review
  mechanism (GitHub Actions posts to Slack for a regular documentation
  outdatedness check?) to track how old docs are and ensure they're
  still relevant.
- This is a first step towards that goal, by adding a `last_review_date`
  to the metadata of all docs with a date of earlier than Homebrew's
  inception because everything needs reviewing so that we start from a
  good base!
2025-02-03 11:56:07 +00:00

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Interesting Taps and Forks

A tap is Homebrew-speak for a Git repository containing additional formulae.

Homebrew has the capability to add (and remove) multiple taps to your local installation with the brew tap and brew untap commands; run man brew in your terminal for usage information. The main repository at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core, often called homebrew/core, is always built-in.

Your taps are Git repositories located at $(brew --repository)/Library/Taps.

Unsupported interesting taps

  • DomT4/autoupdate: An external command to automatically run brew update (and optionally brew upgrade or brew cleanup) in the background with launchd.

  • homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg: A tap for FFmpeg with additional options, including nonfree additions.

  • denji/nginx: A tap for NGINX modules, intended for its nginx-full formula which includes more module options.

  • InstantClientTap/instantclient: A tap for Oracle Instant Client.

  • osx-cross/avr: GNU AVR toolchain (Libc, compilers and other tools for Atmel MCUs), useful for Arduino hackers and AVR programmers.

  • petere/postgresql: Allows installing multiple PostgreSQL versions in parallel.

  • osrf/simulation: Tools for robotics simulation.

  • brewsci/bio: Bioinformatics formulae.

  • davidchall/hep: High energy physics formulae.

  • lifepillar/appleii: Formulae for vintage Apple emulation.

  • gromgit/fuse: macOS FUSE formulae that are no longer available in homebrew/core.

  • cloudflare/cloudflare: Formulae for the applications by Cloudflare, including curl with HTTP/3 support.

  • apple/apple: Formulae from Apple, including the Game Porting Toolkit.

Unsupported interesting forks