Suggestion - support legacy Homebrew clients

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:35:50 +0000

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/b07685291b65e51e0afc2b6cee91251419e0b3c1 was a breaking change for people deciding to keep using old versions of Brew (which is not particularly easy or popular, but I happen to do it). It's breaking in that an old Brew client querying a newer formula would fail with:

Error: clojure: undefined method `license' for #<Class:0x00007fd2ca91eb38>

This can be trivially addressed by wrapping the license call with an idiomatic if self.respond_to?(:license).

This would allow me to keep using the latest Clojure formulae without having to hack them for such a trivial change.

Would you consider doing it?

Thanks - V

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