Homebrew is a requirement for CLI

[eimantas]

Bitrise CLI can be installed through direct download link, however any commands in bitrise require homebrew. It'd be nice to not have that dependency.

[viktorbenei]

Thanks for the feature request @eimantas ! We'll discuss this with the team ASAP once everyone's back from holidays. PRs are of course always welcome :)

Happy Building!

[eimantas]

Thanks for working during holidays and I look forward to your decision!

[viktorbenei]

@eimantas I discussed this with the team and we definitely agree that we should not require brew. In fact we should not require any dependency manager at all.

We'll schedule work on this in the coming weeks, but as this might take quite a bit of time we can't promise an ETA. We'll try our best to fit it into the next CLI release cycle (next CLI release will be next week, we can't work on this in this cycle unfortunately, the next cycle will be released in February, as usual, the second Tuesday of the month).

In the meantime if you'd have any questions, comments or feedback just let us know!

Pull Requests are also welcome of course.

Happy Building! :)

[eimantas]

Glad to hear such a decision. I look forward to the release .)

[viktorbenei]

Update: we probably won't have enough time in this release cycle to remove the homebrew dependency. We still think this is a great idea, but not sure when we'll have enough time to implement it.

Pull Request / contribution is of course welcome if someone would have enough time to implement this!