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Homebrew VS Private Packagist

Compare Homebrew VS Private Packagist and see what are their differences

Homebrew logo Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS

Private Packagist logo Private Packagist

Composer package archive as a service for PHP
  • Homebrew Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-03-29
  • Private Packagist Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-22

Homebrew videos

Homebrew Review: Coopers Lager - Taste Test

More videos:

  • Review - Homebrew Review | Alchemist Class by Mage Hand Press (featuring Designer Mike Holik)
  • Review - Northern Brewer Cream Ale Homebrew Review Tasting

Private Packagist videos

Interview - Private Packagist Nils Adermann, Mathias Schreiber

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Homebrew and Private Packagist)
Front End Package Manager
Package Manager
91 91%
9% 9
Windows Tools
100 100%
0% 0
Developer Tools
89 89%
11% 11

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Homebrew seems to be a lot more popular than Private Packagist. While we know about 884 links to Homebrew, we've tracked only 7 mentions of Private Packagist. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Homebrew mentions (884)

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Private Packagist mentions (7)

  • Private Packagist - has anyone used and can tell me if it might fit in my scenario?
    I was told in another forum to look at Private Packagist... But how is that different? Instead of installing packages from packagist.org.. You pay to Packagist.com to do the same thing? You just download from packagist.com cloud instead of packagist.org? Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Need a secured way to be able to use Composer
    We have a private Satis instance. Our ITSec team reviews all packages before we add them to Satis. Packagist.com is available for us but the CI-CD servers can reach only the private Satis. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Need a secured way to be able to use Composer
    Https://packagist.com maybe tell them about a local packagist install. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Need a secured way to be able to use Composer
    "[MANAGER] requested this to be done in PHP. You as IT will know that most modern programming and scripting languages work only with packaging software properly. Composer sends requests (majority of cases) to packagist.com and to github.com. It will add thousands of hours to do everything that composer does manually. Please sign here to authorize the usage of 4000 hours and the possible delay of 4000 hours.... Source: almost 2 years ago
  • What do you think of SaaS Frameworks?
    Another downside that only really exists with non-PHP boilerplates is getting updates isn'T as easy. With PHP we're able to use packagist.com and make our code available via composer. Other languages don't have this so SaaS Pegasus provides zip downloads and Gravity provides access to a GitHub repo. This means you have to apply bug fixes yourself. With Parthenon, you do composer update and you'll get the latest... Source: about 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Homebrew and Private Packagist, you can also consider the following products

Chocolatey - The sane way to manage software on Windows.

Satis - Satis is a simple static Composer repository generator

iTerm2 - A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.

Sonatype Nexus Repository - The world's only repository manager with FREE support for popular formats.

Visual Studio Code - Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft

Artifactory - The world’s most advanced repository manager.