Potential submission to Homebrew (MacOS support)

[rfrench3]

I was reviewing potential ways to package scopebuddy, and was wondering if MacOS support would be possible? Scopebuddy is mainly for gamescope, but it is still quite useful for regular launch options. It should not require many changes to be accepted into the main homebrew repository, and I am willing to work on the necessary changes to make it happen.

The software in question must:

• be stable (e.g. not declared “unstable” or “beta” by upstream)
• be maintainable (i.e. the new formula must be a stable release that works without patching on all Homebrew-supported OS versions and has no outstanding and unpatched security vulnerabilities)
• be known (e.g. GitHub repositories should have >=30 forks, >=30 watchers or >=75 stars)
• be used by someone other than the author (e.g. someone other than the author submitted the pull request or opened an issue with us or them to add it to Homebrew)
• have a homepage (e.g. somewhere on the internet, can be a GitHub repository with a README, which can be accessed in a browser to learn about the project)

If scopebuddy works on the version of Bash that MacOS has it might only require changes like making sure the correct config directory is chosen for MacOS. We do need to consider that we would then need to find testers with Macbooks to make sure it works (and ensure it works for future releases) though.

[HikariKnight]

in my personal opinion MacOS support is not in the scope (but i am not the sole person to decide this), mainly because my mac is from 2009 and has been EOL for a looong time so i have no proper way to test it (and i cannot be bothered to set up a VM for it for it to only function for about 1 year).

but also because scopebuddy is heavily tied to gamescope, and the mac version would just be equivalent to running with SCB_NOSCOPE=1, but i do not know how useful that will be on Mac as i do not know how much pre launch manipulation you need to do for some games on mac.

I am also unsure if steam on MacOS behaves the same when it comes to being able to eval run scripts.
iirc MacOS also ships an ancient version of bash because Apple did not like the license of newer bash versions, which is why they eventually moved to zsh (unsure if this was the actual case, but would not surprise me. been out of the Mac loop for a good while)