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Install dashing with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix

Generate Dash documentation from HTML files. Version 0.4.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#dashing.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install dashing

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install dashing

MacPorts ports tree · textproc/dashing/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#dashing

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/da/dashing/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Generate Dash documentation from HTML files

Commands and aliases

  • dashing

history

Project history and usage

Dashing is a Go command-line generator for Dash-compatible docsets from existing HTML documentation.

Project history

The public GitHub release record starts with version 0.0.1 in July 2015, followed by 0.2.0 and 0.3.0 later that year and a maintenance update in 2019 for Go 1.13. Its README describes the project as a maintenance-stage tool that maps HTML with CSS selectors into a complete Dash docset.

Adoption history

Dashing's official README points users first to Homebrew and MacPorts, with prebuilt macOS binaries and Go installation as alternatives. That places it in the macOS documentation-tooling niche around Dash docsets rather than in a broad language-runtime ecosystem.

How it is used

A typical workflow is to run `dashing create` in an HTML documentation directory, edit `dashing.json`, and then build a `.docset` bundle for Dash.

Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, Dashing is useful because it turns arbitrary upstream HTML docs into the SQLite-backed docset format used by Dash and related offline-documentation workflows.

Timeline

  • 2015: Initial 0.0.1 public release.
  • 2015: 0.2.0 added regular expression support.
  • 2019: 0.4.0 maintenance release updated the build to Go 1.13.

Related projects

  • Dash defines the docset format Dashing targets; Homebrew and MacPorts are documented installation paths.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
dashingexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.4.0
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:dashing
Version0.4.0
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://github.com/technosophos/dashing
Repositoryhttps://github.com/technosophos/dashing
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

dashing

nix profile install nixpkgs#dashing
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Dashing
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/da/dashing/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
MacPorts95%

dashing

sudo port install dashing
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Dashing
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: textproc/dashing/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • pkg.so package database
  • pkgdb category and tag curation