Installing Spin via OS Package Managers

What to name the package?

The spin software validation tool has claimed the spin package name in many OS package managers (brew , apt , chocolatey at minimum).

Some alternative naming options:

• fermyon-spin
• spin-up

Which installers

Creating an apt package

Requires packaging spin and necessary metadata files as a .deb package. See this tutorial.

Something similar to:

$ curl -fsSL https://apt.releases.fermyon.dev/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.fermyon.dev $(lsb_release -cs) main"
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fermyon-spin

Creating a homebrew package

I am not familiar with how difficult it is to create a bottle that can be directly installed with brew install vs creating a fermyon tap that needs to be installed first. I am assuming creating a fermyon tap is easier, creating an installation experience similar to Nomad's.

Homebrew install using fermyon tap

Creating a fermyon tap to install Spin from would result in the following install instructions(flow is similar to Nomad’s install instructions):

First, install the Fermyon tap, a repository of all of the Fermyon Homebrew packages

brew tap fermyon/tap

Now, install Spin with fermyon/tap/spin.

brew install fermyon/tap/spin

To update to the latest, run

brew upgrade fermyon/tap/spin

Creating a Homebrew tap

brew tap <user/repo> makes a clone of the repository at https://github.com/<user>/homebrew-<repo>  into $(brew --repository)/Library/Taps. After that, brew will be able to work with those formulae as if they were in Homebrew’s homebrew/core canonical repository. - https://docs.brew.sh/Taps

Nomad’s repo: https://github.com/hashicorp/homebrew-tap