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Description
Summary
It would be great if Notifier were available via Homebrew (brew install notifier or a tap like jamf/tap/notifier). Currently it's distributed only as a PKG installer, which makes it harder to adopt in developer tooling that relies on Homebrew for dependency management.
Motivation
terminal-notifier has been the de facto CLI notification tool on macOS for years, but it's unmaintained (last commit 2021) and uses the deprecated NSUserNotification API. Notifier is the best alternative — it uses the modern UserNotifications framework, is actively maintained, written in Swift, and has great features like --rebrand for custom icons.
However, many developer tools (CI scripts, IDE plugins, CLI utilities) detect and use notification binaries via which or Homebrew paths. Without a Homebrew formula, adoption is limited to MDM/enterprise deployments.
As a concrete example, peon-ping (1.5k+ stars) currently depends on terminal-notifier for rich macOS notifications and would like to migrate to Notifier as a more future-proof solution. A Homebrew formula would make this migration straightforward for all users.
Proposed
Either:
- A Homebrew cask (since Notifier is a
.appbundle) in homebrew-cask, or - A Jamf tap (
brew tap jamf/tap && brew install jamf/tap/notifier)
Happy to help with the formula if that would be useful.