Episode 796 transcript

FLOSS-796 Jonathan: Hey, this week David joins me and we talk with John Britton and Mike McQuaid about Homebrew, the package manager that macOS is missing, and Workbrew, the new commercial offering built on top of it. It's a lot of fun, you don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode 796, recorded August 13th. Homebrew! I'm more of a Whopper guy. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and we've got something real fun today. We've got, first off, David is in the secondary hot seat, the co pilot chair. He's my wingman. He is the co host today. David Ruggles. David: I'm holding it down. Yes. I'm holding it down. Jonathan: Yeah. Now today our, our topic is. Well, it's, it's Homebrew, which is the package manager that Mac OS wishes it had. And neither of us are big Mac guys, are we? David: Hmm. No I use it. At least once a week, but not extensively. So yes, I have, I have lots of questions that will be the, uh, Luddite. Jonathan: You're our audience proxy for, I don't know much about this. That happens. That's fine. I have, I've actually used homebrew back years ago we w…