Improved the accuracy of the brew output. Often, when multiple console
messages were returned, the progress prompt in the PHP version manager
would display the earliest found step, not the latest, thus unfortunately
misrepresenting the progress of the installation steps.
This fixes that by reversing the return order, but also extracts
relevant information from the commands, too, so that contextual info
is now included (for pouring, installing and downloading steps).
(This makes it a little bit more transparent for the end user to find
out what is taking up all this time. I wish that Homebrew was faster,
too, but there's a reason I'm not using statically compiled PHP for
this project. Either way, this is a nice QoL change.)
Thankfully, these changes are simple. Before releasing, I will be
testing the new build, though.
Here's what constants I changed, and why:
- Homebrew PHP formulae are now consistently sourced from the
`shivammathur/php` tap. This should make the transition to new PHP
releases a little bit easier, but I need to verify this works without
issues before publishing this update.
- Bumped the PHP formulae cutoff date to Nov 30, 2025.
At this point, PHP 8.5 should be released.
- Added support for pre-release (daily) versions of PHP 8.5.
The self-updater is now a requirement for the main app to be able to be
built. You no longer need the existing binary. This makes it easier for
anyone to just try out the app locally and makes reproducible builds
also possible.
(This is done because the self-updater code will soon be moved to a
separate package, and I want to make this entire updater process
as simple as possible.)
In order to avoid the self-updater app from appearing as a product when
archiving a build, SKIP_INSTALL is set to true. This avoids a variety
of annoying issues including the archive appearing under "Other Items".
- Chinese translations contributed by @guanguans (via #285).
- Updated the credits so that all translators are now also listed
separately, since the GitHub issue has been closed.
