DK on MacOS: Homebrew vs. .pkg installer

[Thomas]

Hi Nick,


Thanks for sharing your experience!

A couple of questions:


1: How quickly does the homebrew package tend to be updated when a new 
release of DK is publised?

2: You mention that you moved from a local db to external Mariadb. May I 
ask what were the major drivers for this change? I would imagine moving 
the db external to the machine running DK would come with a performance 
penalty due to the introduction of network latency.

BR

Thomas


On 2025-08-20 13.17, Nick Seward wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I’ve been using the homebrew install of DK for over 3 years now.
> I run it on Apple silicon, an M2 mini. I had it with the local SQL db to start and now I have it connecting to an external MariaDB database.
> No issues or loss of features that I can see.
>
> It may not be officially managed by the DK team but it’s always up to date.
>
> Of course you can validate this by comparing the hash of the homebrew version with the downloadable pkg.
>
> Nick