Re: [PATCH] ci/install-depends: attempt to fix "brew cask" stuff

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2021, 20:07 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSWa_jgUjPXVMeOUwxQV_9Qhv0f-Wyb3odJnb1UpcOcPg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YAH0G+Y4fIxoTeZa@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> > -     brew cask install --no-quarantine perforce || {
> > +     brew install --cask --no-quarantine perforce || {
>
> On a related note, it feels like perforce is a frequent offender for
> triggering spurious failures (both for homebrew setup, but I have
> definitely seen racy/flaky failures from it as well). I am tempted to
> say it is not worth the trouble, but then I do not care at all about
> git-p4 myself in the first place, so I may be biased.

To be fair to 'perforce', though, the fault of this particular problem is Homebrew, which doesn't seem to be all that concerned about backward compatibility, at least in my experience. The single Homebrew-related automation script I wrote for personal use has been broken by arbitrary Homebrew changes frustratingly often over the last three years.