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Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (homebrew replacement)

Published on: 2025-08-15 08:39:20

Sapphire WARNING: ALPHA SOFTWARE > Sapphire is experimental, under heavy development, and may be unstable. Use at your own risk! Uninstalling a cask with brew then reinstalling it with Sapphire will have it installed with slightly different paths, your user settings etc. will not be migrated automatically. Sapphire is a next‑generation, Rust‑powered package manager inspired by Homebrew. It installs and manages: Formulae: command‑line tools, libraries, and languages command‑line tools, libraries, and languages Casks: desktop applications and related artifacts on macOS ARM only for now, might add x86 support eventually ⚙️ Project Structure sapphire‑core Core library: fetching, dependency resolution, archive extraction, artifact handling (apps, binaries, pkg installers, fonts, plugins, zap/preflight/uninstall stanzas, etc.) sapphire‑cli Command‑line interface: sapphire executable wrapping the core library. 🚧 Current Status Bottle installation and uninstallation Cask installatio ... Read full article.