[ome-devel] Improving the OMERO installation docs for Homebrew

[Josh Moore]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Curtis Rueden <ctrueden at wisc.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Following up on some discussion in devteam, there are some changes I think
> we should make to the docs to make installation of OMERO easier on OS X.

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Thanks for the feedback, Curtis. If anyone has run into similar
troubles, or has other suggestions for getting started on OS X, let us
know.
~Josh.

> Given the large number of dependencies, my suggestion would be to streamline
> the information: purge the list of Homebrew deps, in favor of putting the
> ome tap front and center. In general, having installed/upgraded OMERO a few
> times recently on both Linux and OS X, my impression is that there are too
> many shell commands required, making it easy to encounter problems. The
> Homebrew tap is a great way to cut down on the amount of user interaction
> required to get things up and running.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
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