MacOS brew install gitfs fails about gitfs

[bgmonroe]

@smolin, pygit2 is a python module (so would be installed via pip3). I ran into a similar issue (though not identical so take it with a grain of salt). Now that FUSE is no longer in the Homebrew ecosystem (though install-able from the their GitHub repo), brew has to build gitfs from bottle (source, effectively) because it can't fulfill the FUSE dependency. The error I get durriing the bottle build is that it fails compiling libgit2 (which is used by pygit2). Though libgit2 is in fact in Homebrew, it's too recent (1.1.0) where, digging though the build logs, it seems that the version of pygit2 that is needed by gitfs is between 0.99.0 and 1.0.x) which isn't available though brew. I'm not interested in gitfs enough to try building the right version from scratch to I'm moving on. Hopefully this is useful (if not timely) info. Good luck.

[antoine2711]

When trying to install from brew, I get this…

antoine$ brew install gitfs
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json
######################################################################## 100.0%
Warning: gitfs has been deprecated because it is not maintained upstream!
gitfs: Linux is required for this software.
libfuse: Linux is required for this software.
Error: gitfs: Unsatisfied requirements failed this build.

Is it getting worst?

A.