6 alternatives to brew
homebrew/brew — 🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere (50,215 stars, BSD-2-Clause, analytics, integration, database).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 953 licence-cleared components from homebrew/brew itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | composer/composer | 7.8 | MIT | 29,568 |
| 2 | nerdy-tech-com-gitub/choco | 5.5 | Apache-2.0 | 1 |
| 3 | andrewchambers/hermes | 5.2 | MIT | 327 |
| 4 | fortran-lang/fpm | 5.8 | MIT | 1,079 |
| 5 | tinyhumansai/homebrew-core | 5.1 | BSD-2-Clause | 1 |
| 6 | helm/helm | 5.8 | Apache-2.0 | 30,374 |
The alternatives in detail
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Dependency Manager for PHP
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Chocolatey - the package manager for Windowsscore 5.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1 stars · 373 components · search them
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Hermes software environment managerscore 5.2/10 · MIT permissive · 327 stars · 19 components · search them
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Fortran Package Manager (fpm)score 5.8/10 · MIT permissive · 1,079 stars · 15 components · search them
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🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)score 5.1/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 1 stars · 3,027 components · search them
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The Kubernetes Package Manager
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