feature request: alias

[jasonkarns]

I'd love to be able to brew cask alias x y to alias app 'x' as 'y'. Would be as simple as changing the symlink name, I would think.

[vitorgalvao]

Issuing this in the way you suggest doesn’t make much sense to me. It seems like it’d be more appropriate to do at install time. Maybe something that would override (or set) :target. That could break badly in casks that have multiple link stanzas, though. It would also only work in casks that are linked (since the installed ones do not use symlinks), which could make this confusing. We would also need to store some metadata referring to your choice, so it doesn’t break every time you upgrade.

With all this is mind, this seems to me like a very niche feature that could cause more trouble than what it’s worth, in the context of the project.

[rolandwalker]

Yes. It might be a useful feature, but we can't manage it until #3066 at least, and perhaps not until we add a ~/.brewcaskconfig file. Because we currently don't store state.

I certainly do want users to be able to override the :target, but it will take plenty of effort to create an implementation that is not a bug-generator.

[vitorgalvao]

Will be irrelevant when symlinking changes (in the plans), so closing.