gobo mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• geant
• gec
• gecc
• gecop
• gedoc
• geimage
• gelex
• gelint
• gelsp
• gepp
• getest
• gexslt
• geyacc

Projektgeschichte

The Gobo Eiffel project positions portability and free tooling for the Eiffel community as its central concern. Its GitHub repository was created in September 2009, and the repository README describes the project as hosted on GitHub while the official stable-release site is Gobosoft.

The project includes a broad set of libraries and utilities rather than a single executable. The README lists nineteen Eiffel libraries and thirteen utilities, covering compiler, parser, lexer, documentation, testing, XSLT, and yacc-style workflows.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Gobo's audience is narrower than mainstream Go or GNOME packages, but the package has a long-running release identity in the Eiffel ecosystem. GitHub release records include Gobo Eiffel 4.3 in November 2018 and later date-coded releases such as 26.05 in May 2026.

Wie es verwendet wird

Developers use Gobo Eiffel for Eiffel compilation, testing, preprocessing, linting, lexical and parser generation, documentation, and XML/XSLT work. The repository documentation emphasizes use across different Eiffel compilers so users can keep their preferred compiler while using the Gobo tools and libraries.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The package is interesting because it preserves a complete, installable slice of the Eiffel tooling world in a general-purpose package manager. It is a reminder that Homebrew formulas are not only for high-volume Unix utilities; they also carry language-community toolchains whose value is portability, archival continuity, and reproducible setup for a niche ecosystem.

Zeitleiste

• 2009-09-03: Public GitHub repository created
• 2018-11-28: Gobo Eiffel 4.3 release published on GitHub
• 2018: Gobo Eiffel 4.3 release notes describe migration from Xace files to ECF files
• 2026-05-15: Gobo Eiffel 26.05 release published on GitHub

Related projects

• EiffelStudio and the Gobo Eiffel Compiler are documented compiler contexts for Gobo.
• The bundled Boehm GC and Zig toolchain are acknowledged in the repository README as included third-party components.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/gobo-eiffel/gobo
• https://api.github.com/repos/gobo-eiffel/gobo/releases?per_page=100
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gobo
• https://github.com/gobo-eiffel/gobo
• https://github.com/gobo-eiffel/gobo/releases/tag/gobo-26.05
• https://github.com/gobo-eiffel/gobo/releases/tag/gobo-4.3
• https://www.gobosoft.com/