Pre-built binaries for latest version

[pardom]

The readme describes a method of installation for macOS using pre-built binaries: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-ide-engine#installation-on-macos

The latest release with pre-built binaries is three versions old. Could we add this step to the release checklist and add binaries for the existing release?

[lukel97]

Oops, that link in the readme should be taken out (for now). There's a pretty bad issue with the binaries involving paths that means that they can only run on the machine that they are built, so we've taken them down: #992
There is a new version of cabal-helper that should be integrated with HIE soon that avoids using the wrapper that requires relative paths, and hopefully then we should be able to get binaries up and running again

[pardom]

Okay, so should I build from source for now?

[pardom]

And in the meantime could we have a brew formula?

[pardom]

Actually, I'll make the formula and PR a README change if that's okay.

[lukel97]

Certainly! There is a ticket for the homebrew formulae #529, and there was a PR for homebrew-core too but it was recently closed by the maintainers (it looks like they don't like installing via stack nor cabal new-install): Homebrew/homebrew-core#29800
It is definitely possible to host a formula in this repository though, and any PRs are gladly welcomed

[pardom]

Oh, geez that's obnoxious. Yeah, this repo could be a tap.