brew bundle has been removed

[tapeinosyne]

The brew bundle command has recently been removed from Homebrew; we relied on it for automation.

Since Cask is a popular tool for provisioning personal machines, it would be desirable to seek a working alternative without external dependencies, or implement our own bundle-like command.

(In the future, bundle-like functionality may be provided by “metacasks” exclusively comprised of cask dependencies, but until then, it would be best to provide an interim solution.)

[MikeMcQuaid]

I'd recommend attempting to strip dependencies from https://github.com/andrew/brewdler and using that.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Also, you may be interested to learn that we now source our PATH from taps so you can add subcommands to brew on a brew tap alone: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/e494a8407f128908a61fd0ebd7c1dc240dd29515/Library/brew.rb#L111-L113

[lukateras]

Preparing a pull request.

[tapeinosyne]

@MikeMcQuaid, thanks for the recommendation. “Command taps” are a welcome addition.

@yegortimoschenko, quite sorry for the late response. We would gladly accept an external contribution for the new bundle. Are you still planning to work on it? If so, let us know if we can help.

Also, if you have already done some work, feel free to open an incomplete PR and mark it as "WIP". This would help other contributors to focus on a single proposal.

[vitorgalvao]

I say we move the whole discussion to the concept of metacasks (and decide there if we should do it or not), as that could conceivably do the same (and possibly more) than bundle.

it would be desirable to seek a working alternative without external dependencies

Solution that fills the requisites:

bundle() {
  sed '/^\s*$/d;s/^/brew /' "$1" | sh
}

@ndr-qef If there’s something here I’m missing, feel free to reopen for further discussion.

[MikeMcQuaid]

For anyone following this thread: this is the new official replacement built by @andrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-brewdler