FR: Installation via brew?

[mayurankv]

Would it be possible to have installation via homebrew? i.e. brew install kanata-tray?

[rszyma]

I'm not planning to package for homebrew, I don't have any macos devices so I wouldn't be able to test brew recipe (or whatever it's called) anyway.

But if anyone else is interested in doing so, obviously feel free to do it. Same thing for other package managers.

The only package manager I'm willing to package for is nix, we already have flake with devshell with all deps sorted out, so it should be pretty straightforward to add build step, I hope.

[mayurankv]

Great I'll have a try at doing this myself as a brew service! Thanks for the heads up!

[CampAsAChamp]

Hey 👋 just wanted to check to see if any progress has been made on this?

[mayurankv]

It's not trivial simply because kanata relies on karabiner running and having been activated. It's not trivial to set up such a cask properly as a result as you'd not only need the dependency but to ensure it doesn't run and but also so that the daemons run in the background. I'm not super familiar with this kind of task so I gave up and just went with a local plist that works for me but might not elsewhere. Also I think I had issues with environment variables but I can't recall. If you want to have a go look at the formula documentation but it's harder than I expected.