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Package Management Learnings from Homebrew

K.3.201 | Day 1 | 14:00 - 14:25 | Speakers: Mike McQuaid

Package Management Learnings from Homebrew
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Abstract

Homebrew released v5.0.0 in November 2025. I'll walk through some of the major changes that landed in that Homebrew version, what expectations we're aiming to improve based on other package managers and things other package managers could learn from Homebrew's approach.

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Mike McQuaid

Mike McQuaid is the Project Leader of the Homebrew package manager for macOS (and Linux), maintainer for 16 years, contributor to a wide variety of FOSS and an ex-employee of GitHub.

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