# honcho mit Homebrew, Nix installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für honcho in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:honcho ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install honcho ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#honcho ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ho/honcho/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:honcho - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 2.0.0 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Python clone of Foreman, for managing Procfile-based applications - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** MIT - **Quellarchiv:** - **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - honcho (cli) - honcho (Alias) ## Abhängigkeiten - python@3.14 ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf all ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-07-08 - Manager-Version: 2.0.0 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/nickstenning/honcho - Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung Honcho is a Python port of David Dollar's Foreman, built to run and manage applications described by a `Procfile`. It belongs to the Heroku/12-factor family of development tools: a small CLI reads process declarations, loads optional environment variables, and starts a local process group with prefixed logs. ### Projektgeschichte The upstream README and Read the Docs site describe Honcho as a Python port of Foreman. That origin matters because Foreman popularized the `Procfile` workflow outside Heroku: put `web`, `worker`, and other process roles in one file, then run a single command during development. Honcho's changelog shows a conventional Python CLI maturation path. By 2015 it had an explicit changelog and version command, then accumulated Windows fixes, process-output fixes, custom Procfile handling, and service export support. ### Adoptionsgeschichte Honcho spread through Python packaging first and then into system package managers such as Homebrew and Nix. Its adoption is tied less to a large ecosystem of plugins and more to a durable need: Python developers wanted Foreman-style Procfile orchestration without depending on the Ruby implementation. ### Wie es verwendet wird A typical workflow is to write a `Procfile`, optionally write a `.env` file, and run `honcho start`. The docs also cover using Procfiles to coordinate related services during development and exporting process definitions to init systems. Changelog milestones show the tool broadening from basic local process management into operational handoff features, including Upstart, supervisord, runit, and systemd export support. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren Honcho is a classic package-manager bridge package: small, stable CLI; language-specific origin; useful across many app stacks. It also illustrates how a simple file convention, `Procfile`, became portable infrastructure vocabulary across Ruby, Python, shell, and other implementations. ### Zeitleiste - 2015: Honcho starts keeping a changelog at version 0.6.0. - 2016: Version 0.7.0 adds runit export support and `PROCFILE` environment-variable handling. - 2017: Version 1.0.0 adds process-name environment exposure and shared no-colour/no-prefix flags. - 2021: Version 1.1.0 adds systemd unit export support. - 2024: Version 2.0.0 drops older Python/PyPy versions and adds Python 3.11 through 3.13 support. ### Related projects - Foreman is the direct ancestor and design reference. - Heroku Procfile documentation and the 12-factor config model provide the workflow conventions Honcho follows. - systemd, runit, supervisord, and Upstart are related because Honcho can export process definitions for those service managers. ### Quellen - Homebrew input metadata: package-manager identity and executable. - Honcho README and Read the Docs: project purpose, Foreman relationship, Procfile and `.env` workflow. - Honcho changelog: release and feature milestones. ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: Procfile, .env ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** honcho - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - honcho: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ho/honcho/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Verwandte Links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [goresym](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/goresym/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, foreman, process-management, process-manager. - [forego](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/forego/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, process-management, process-manager, procfile. - [foreman](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/foreman/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, process-management, process-manager, procfile. - [hivemind](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/hivemind/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, process-management, process-manager, procfile. - [overmind](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/overmind/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, process-manager, procfile. - [abi3audit](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/abi3audit/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, python. - [auditwheel](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/auditwheel/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, python. - [austin](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/austin/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, python. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/honcho.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/honcho.yml) ## Quellen - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph