Create brew formula

[ismailmustafa]

Running make takes about 20 minutes to complete on my computer. Pre-compiling this and serving it as a brew formula would make installing hie significantly faster.

[alanz]

PR's welcome, I am not a MAC user.

[lukel97]

Looks like they don't allow the use of stack in Homebrew formulae. We could possibly provide a ghc/cabal single-version install of hie without hie-wrapper, but would need to leave a caveat that it only supports one version of ghc.

Another alternative might be providing our own binaries via Github releases. We would probably have to include an install script to move all the different binaries into the right location though

[ismailmustafa]

Another alternative might be providing our own binaries via Github releases.

@bubba That's what I meant with my initial suggestion. Apologies for not being clearer. I don't think it's particularly useful building from source using homebrew as it will still take just as long. I can look into this as well when I get a bit of free time.

I would strongly recommend doing something about this, because right now cloning from source I can't successfully build (#784) and this is incredibly frustrating as a new user.

[lukel97]

@chris-kahn I reopened the PR for the brew formula a while back but it hasn't gone anywhere so far: Homebrew/homebrew-core#29800

[lukel97]

@ismailmustafa I think with homebrew it would provide bottled binaries for us, although I agree we should probably release our own binaries

[alanz]

@bubba Is this still relevant?

[lukel97]

The homebrew-core repository isn’t accepting any formulae with cabal new-build nor stack, and the GHC version is still 8.4.4 it looks like. I think the best solution for now is just to host the HIE formula in this repository, since I recently discovered it’s possible to install formulae by just passing the URL to it.