The thing about Homebrew is that it's great once you have it, but the user experience of actually installing it can be quite a pain, and we didn't want users who don't have it to have to go through the trouble. That being said, I still think it would be great to contribute a Homebrew formula.
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With respect, I don't share the view that installing Homebrew is a pain. Even the most inexperienced would-be developer can follow the very simple guide I (very coincidentally) posted yesterday: http://hackercodex.com/guide/mac-osx-mountain-lion-10.8-conf...
But it seems you guys are amenable to offering both the .pkg installer and a Homebrew formula, which would be great. :^)
Congrats on the new release! You are definitely doing a great job making developers love RethinkDB, feels like you already generated loads of interest.
I'll try to comment here as well when this is done!
I'd be happy to do a pull request that does paths for homebrew and ports, so that either OS X party can be OK with it.
FYI, we just wanted to give people a one-click install on a clean OS X setup. We have no objects to supporting package managers, and were going to do that eventually (but hey, it's much easier for the issue list to grow than to shrink :)).
Personally I wouldn't install the pkg for the reasons stated by SnowLprd, but I definitely would switch to a homebrewed formula if it was available.
Great work on getting OSX support out so quickly!