Hi Jason,

Here's the primary documentation for Homebrew formulae:
https://docs.brew.sh/Formula-Cookbook and here's an example of an existing
C++ library formula:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/libodfgen.rb

There is a central repository for Homebrew formulae, but there are
notability requirements; and the fact that this is a fork of another
project would also count against it.  But anyone can create their own
package repositories for the formulae they write: https://docs.brew.sh/Taps

It's been a few years since I worked on Homebrew but I can try to help if
you run into issues writing a formula.

Alexandra

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:02 AM Jason Ronallo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One of my colleagues is working with Bulk Extractor (BE) [1] for born
> digital processing. They're trying out some other options in BE to see
> if they can improve some of the results they're getting with search.
> One of these options is a "lightgrep" scanner for searching for
> content using regular expressions. This BE scanner uses the lightgrep
> library, that appears to be be maintained here:
>
> https://github.com/strozfriedberg/liblightgrep
>
> The library is installed in the BitCurator environment, but it would
> be helpful to allow us to do processing outside of the BC environment.
> They're working on a Mac and could try compiling lightgrep from
> source, but we'll want to have this deployed to more than one
> workstation.
>
> We thought it might be an option to have a homebrew package created
> for lightgrep to make it easy to install. It seems like this homebrew
> package could help others who are using Bulk Extractor on Mac or
> Linux. They gave it a try and ran into issues.  Does anyone know the
> best approach to creating a homebrew package? Are these centrally
> maintained? Is there anyone in the community who could help us create
> this package? The TAR file, for the brew formula, is available here:
> http://strozfriedberg.github.io/liblightgrep/
>
> Best,
>
> Jason
>
> [1] https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor
>