Hi all, I am doing a fresh install of my OS and realized how powerful brew is. I checked whether I could install Slicer with it and discovered that only the stable version is available : brew cask install slicer I thought it would be convenient to be able to install the nightly build, so I took th…

Thanks @hjmjohnson - added: https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build_Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt#Mac_with_Homebrew

So, shall we discuss: Cron script to update the cask after each mac build Add the info to the wiki Announce this in the forum

Just updated the cask: cask-repair --cask-version 4.7.0.26221,675049 slicer-nightly

[image] Fernando: So, shall we discuss: Cron script to update the cask after each mac build Add the info to the wiki Announce this in the forum Hi all, I’m still not sure whether you think it’s useful to add this info to the wiki and/or the forum. Could you please give me some feedback? I…

Hi Fernando, Thanks for the reminder. I have been busy upgrading the infrastructure to work with Qt5 and VTK8 and didn’t have a chance to look further into this. To move forward, it would be ideal to share few scripts consolidating all valuable information shared here. For example: script 1: sl…

Alright! Those scripts would be run by you, right? I mean, we’re talking first about what you guys need to do to keep the cask updated and then we can publish the info needed by the users?

[image] Fernando: Those scripts would be run by you, right? The script will be run automatically on a nightly basis from the macOS machine hosted at Kitware that is already generating the MacOSX installer. [image] Fernando: what you guys need to do to keep the cask updated Hopefully, …

[image] jcfr: the macOS machine hosted at Kitware Sure, that is what I meant by “you” :smile: [image] jcfr: In this case, the users are Slicer maintainers Ok, but we’re doing this so that the end users can upgrade Slicer easily, right? Shall we write the instructions to the wiki page? …

[image] Fernando: we’re doing this so that the end users can upgrade Slicer easily, right? Shall we write the instructions to the wiki page? Indeed. Instructions would be great. That said, they should be fairly minimum as all the steps would be captured in the scripts. Ideally, running the …

I think I’m missing something. In my head there are actually four scripts: Slicer maintainers Setup = install brew + install cask-upgrade Update = send PR with new version Slicer users Setup = install brew and other stuff + Slicer Nightly Update = download and install nightly version of Sl…

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