HTTPie on Homebrew, and Linuxbrew

Welcome to the documentation about packaging HTTPie for Homebrew.

If you do not know HTTPie, have a look here.
If you are looking for HTTPie installation or upgrade instructions on Homebrew, then you can find them on that page (that one for Linuxbrew).
If you are looking for technical information about the HTTPie packaging on Homebrew, then you are in a good place.

About

This document contains technical details, where we describe how to create a patch for the latest HTTPie version for Homebrew. They apply to Linuxbrew as well. We will discuss setting up the environment, installing development tools, installing and testing changes before submitting a patch downstream.

Overall process

The brew deployment is completely automated, and only requires a trigger to Release on Homebrew action from the release manager.

If it is needed to be done manually, the following command can be used:

console

$ brew bump-formula-pr httpie --version={TARGET_VERSION}

which will bump the formula, and create a PR against the package index.

Hacking

Make your changes, test the formula through the Test Brew Package action and then finally submit your patch to homebrew-core