<p>Profitable mining is done by fairly few individuals today (unfortunately), and so there is not really much demand for an easily installable mining client. Most professional mining operations likely compile their own mining clients from source, possibly with their own customizations.</p>

<p>The only demand I could see, which I suspect is your usecase, is to just try mining out for fun. That reason alone hasn't been sufficient enough for someone to spend the time to get a mining client on brew/macports/etc.</p>

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<p>Is there some reason why the mining software like <code>sgminer</code>, <code>cgminer</code>, or <code>bgminer</code> are not on <a href="http://brew.sh/" rel="nofollow">homebrew</a>?  I guess I'm wondering if there is a "political" reason? or if it's just not been tried yet? or is there some other reason?</p>

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Probably nobody was sufficiently interested to invest the time yet? I'm not sure this question can be answered without speculation.
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Why are there not miners on homebrew
erikvold
# Why are there not miners on homebrew

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-09-23)

Is there some reason why the mining software like `sgminer`, `cgminer`, or `bgminer` are not on [homebrew](http://brew.sh/)? I guess I'm wondering if there is a "political" reason? or if it's just not been tried yet? or is there some other reason?

**Tags:** mac, mining-software

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Probably nobody was sufficiently interested to invest the time yet? I'm not sure this question can be answered without speculation.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2016-03-06. Score: 1

Profitable mining is done by fairly few individuals today (unfortunately), and so there is not really much demand for an easily installable mining client. Most professional mining operations likely compile their own mining clients from source, possibly with their own customizations.

The only demand I could see, which I suspect is your usecase, is to just try mining out for fun. That reason alone hasn't been sufficient enough for someone to spend the time to get a mining client on brew/macports/etc.


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