Brewing Beer With Free Software 83
An anonymous reader tipped us to an interview with Phillip Lee, author of Brewtarget, one of the best pieces of Free brewing software available (it's even in Debian). The interview discusses some of the technical decisions made (why Qt and Cmake?), and mentions a bit of the plans for future development: "The way the database was designed previously really hadn't been changed since the my first code in 2008, and we were running into a brick wall with some of the features we wanted. After we move to SQLite, there will be quite a lot of new features like being able to search through the ingredients in the database and stuff like that. I also plan to add some water chemistry tools for people that like to alter the ions and salts to fit a particular profile." (The last bit about water salt modifications comes as a relief to at least this brewer.)
make beer (Score:5, Funny)
$ make beer
make: *** No rule to make target `beer'. Stop.
I guess brewtarget is the configure script?
C'mon guys, it's really simple... (Score:4, Funny)
Doesn't Work (Score:5, Funny)
This software doesn't work at all! I downloaded it and it installed fine. Then I ran it, and waited for like hours, and no beer yet! Here I am sitting with my mug under the USB port, and nothing is coming out. Jeez. Damn open source software. The USB port is for input / output, right? Well, where's the damn output?
It said something about hops, so I did lots of hopping and even a little jumping, but to no avail.
Wait a minute, it's saying something about adding water. Let me go pour some water into the keyboard and see if that helps...
Re:make beer (Score:4, Funny)
sudo make beer
Re:Winemakers get no love! (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think they included Wine support since it's a native Qt app or something....