Adding alias `diagramsnet` to cask `drawio`possible?

[Rabattkarte]

Provide a detailed description of the proposed feature

Hello,

I know that homebrew-core is able to define Aliases for packages. Is the same possible for casks? I did not find anything explaining this in any docs.

I'm wondering this because today I installed the draw.io desktop version again. This was rebranded to diagrams.net some time ago.

Now, I know about the zoom/https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/zoomus.rb cask, which installs either zoom directly or as a dependency.

Can we somehow adapt the Aliases functionality of homebrew-core for homebrew-cask?

What is the motivation for the feature?

Letting people install casks by historical/well-known names as well as updated, rebranded names.

Example use case

brew install --cask diagramsnet

instead of

brew install --cask drawio

should install the same cask.

[carlocab]

We don't currently have a way of adding aliases to Casks, but we'd love it if someone implemented it so that we could do it just like for formulae. Perhaps you'd like to open a pull request for it?

[bevanjkay]

I'm wondering this because today I installed the draw.io desktop version again. This was rebranded to diagrams.net some time ago.

It looks like the application is still called draw.io at this stage, despite the rebranding of the web application.

Despite this, aliases / rename functionality would definitely be useful.

[Rabattkarte]

Thank you for the answers. I must dig into the tap framework and understand this first.

If anyone reading this thinks this is an easy fix: please go ahead. :-)

[Tabbbbs]

Thnx

[ridicolos]

I looked a bit into this. It seems like this would be a change in the brew repo and not here.

There is already an alias handling in the homebrew-core for the formulas.

You can see (I think) some implementation of that here: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb

But there is nothing with aliases in the corresponding cask.rb.

Maybe this should be a feature-request in the brew repo, or am I wrong here?