How long takes generally for helix to update the packages?

[norman784]

In my case I'm curious about Homebrew, but it seems that it takes a while for helix to be updated, is there a better way to have the editor up to date?

Also does the helix team update some package distribution system directly? (example is Macports/Homebrew updated directly by the team?)

[archseer]

We have our own tap that I forgot to update until now, it should be up to date now: helix-editor/homebrew-helix@719f09c

Generally it depends on the distribution since we don't have control over downstream packaging.

[norman784]

Cool, thanks!

[dylrich]

This is an old discussion and perhaps not possible for you, but I have never once experienced a broken master and I've built Helix from source every day or two for the past 7ish months on multiple machines. I'd highly recommend just keeping a local clone, pulling periodically, and re-running cargo install --path=helix-term. You also have to check for updated submodules fairly often due to languages being added/changed around, but it's not too bad. I usually run the following:

git pull && git submodule sync; git submodule update --init
cargo install --path=helix-term
rm -rf ~/.config/helix/runtime && cp -r runtime ~/.config/helix