[Cryptech-Commits] [releng/alpha] branch master updated: Oops, README.md was written before we added Homebrew support.

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       new  3861954   Oops, README.md was written before we added Homebrew support.
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commit 3861954162e4295b44216e1ac35e37193812156c
Author: Rob Austein <sra at hactrn.net>
AuthorDate: Mon Jul 11 18:44:49 2016 -0400

    Oops, README.md was written before we added Homebrew support.
---
 README.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 42c50a0..a099e13 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ current build process:
     package produces a source tarball as one of its outputs, so we get
     that for free by doing this step first.
 
-2.  Running "pbuilder" to generate clean binary packages for the
+2.  Running [pbuilder][] to generate clean binary packages for the
     "i386" and "amd64" architectures for Debian Jessie and Ubuntu
     Xenial.
 
@@ -114,17 +114,25 @@ current build process:
 4.  Uploading changes from the staging repositories to our public APT
     repositories.
 
-Planned, but missing from the above, is generation of a Homebrew
-formula for Mac OS X and loading that formula along with the
-corresponding source tarball to a public Homebrew "tap".  At least the
-initial version of this will likely be a source-only formula; in
-theory, it would be possible for us to cross-compile Mac OS X binaries
-without needing an expensive build farm (eg, using
-https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross), but we haven't sorted
-through either the technical or licensing issues.
+5.  Generation of a [Homebrew][] formula and committing that formula to
+    the staging instance of a Homebrew "tap" (git repository), using a
+    tarball created during the Debian source package stage as the
+    source package.  The Homebrew formula is source-only (no "bottled"
+    binary packages): creating binary packages would not be
+    particularly difficult (one [osxcross][] instance per version of
+    OSX we want to support would do it), but Apple's Xcode SDK license
+    doesn't permit this unless we run our build farm on Apple
+    hardware.
 
 In theory, it would also be possible to produce Windows binaries using
-the MinGW cross-compilation environment, but Windows is sufficiently
+the [MinGW][] cross-compilation environment, but Windows is sufficiently
 different from all other platforms that even minimal Windows support
 would almost certainly require extensive source code changes, so we
 have not put any serious thought into build issues for Windows.
+
+
+[XiLinxTools]:		http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/design-tools.html
+[osxcross]:		https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross
+[pbuilder]:		https://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org/
+[Homebrew]:		http://brew.sh/
+[MinGW]:		http://www.mingw.org/

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