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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 >