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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