Move formula into Homebrew/homebrew

[fwalch]

Now that there's a release, it should be possible to get the formula accepted into https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew so we don't have to maintain it ourselves anymore. This might involve having to properly package the third-party dependencies, though.

[justinmk]

After #195 this is mostly just waiting for someone to send a PR to homebrew.

[equal-l2]

A week has passed since the last commit.

If there's no problem after the last commit, I'll make PR on homebrew-core in several days.

[mhinz]

Wasn't there still Lua stuff to sort out? And maybe changing to mpack.

Is there any advantage of having Neovim in homebrew-core apart from the fact that users don't have to use a tap anymore?

[equal-l2]

@mhinz
Nope.
I was too impatient, sorry for bothering.

[mhinz]

Well, I didn't mean to sound declining, I really wasn't sure about it. :-) You did some great contributions already, 👍, but staying in control feels right at the moment.

[javian]

Why do you feel that it would go out of control by committing it to homebrew ? Its an open community with many maintainers so if things needs to be patched then it will happen quite quickly if PRs are made.
The other advantage would be that there a pre-compiled binaries to download so that user won't need to compile it so it will be faster to deploy from homebrew and that it potentially might meet a wider audience that wouldn't be exposed to neovim otherwise.

[justinmk]

@javian Good points. Pre-compiled option would be really helpful.

[fxcoudert]

Hi, I'd like to get this formula into Homebrew, given that it is currently the most-used external tap :)
It would require to use the released luv and lua. Can you help with that?

[justinmk]

@fxcoudert Reviewing #198 it seems the blocker is luarocks. We need lpeg and some other lua modules for some of our build scripts.

By the way, what statistics are you looking at?

[fxcoudert]

I don't understand, as Homebrew lua is built with luarocks support by default.

(Homebrew analytics.)

[justinmk]

Maybe @equal-l2 can comment.

[equal-l2]

Neovim uses luajit instead of pure lua because of performance issue, right?

I've never tried with homebrew's lua, but it might be worth to try.

[equal-l2]

We need a means to install rocks (lpeg, mpack, and bitlib) from homebrew formula to fully depend to homebrew's lua.