brew-rs

A rust interface to the Homebrew command line app.

The main benefit is a type-safe implementation of brew --json output. This shows up in the form of the Package struct, as well as derivative structs.

Use

There are three entry points, all of which rely on having the brew command line installed.

update()?; // Updates homebrew and all formulea from github, by calling brew update
let jq = Package::new("jq")?; // equivalent to brew info
// not all packages have descriptions
assert_eq!(jq.desc.unwrap(), "Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor");
if !jq.is_installed() {
    jq.install(Options::new().head().force().env_std())?; // brew install --HEAD --force --env=std
}

The other main ways to access packages are:

let installed_package = all_installed()?; // brew info --installed
let all_packages = all_packages()?        // brew info --all