appcast stanza question

[GETandSELECT]

Hi

What exactly is the appcast stanza for? I thought this would automatically record new releases in cask, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

example: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/ripme.rb#L6

There is a new release of this cask. I need to do a PR? In appcast linked feed the new release appears.

thank you

[gromgit]

In a nutshell, the content retrieved from the appcast URL is parsed by brew to determine the latest release version of the software. That's pretty much it.

As for the updating of the cask itself, it seems to still be a manual process.

See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/doc/cask_language_reference/stanzas/appcast.md for the full details, and https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/doc/cask_language_reference/all_stanzas.md for links to all the stanzas available.