macOS
brew install metashelllocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für metashell in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install metashelllocal Homebrew formula metadata
Überblick
Metaprogramming shell for C++ templates
Verlauf
Metashell is a C++ template metaprogramming REPL: its project README describes the goal as providing an interactive shell for template metaprogramming, and the project documentation frames it as the C++ template analogue of Python, Haskell, or Erlang interactive shells. Its core niche is making compile-time C++ template evaluation inspectable without forcing developers to encode every experiment as compiler diagnostics.
The tool is tied to the mid-2010s wave of C++ metaprogramming tooling around Clang and Templight. Public Templight material names Abel Sinkovics and Andras Kucsma in connection with Metashell, and a Meeting C++ 2014 talk presented an interactive metaprogramming shell based on Clang. Metashell's own documentation says it uses Clang to evaluate metaprograms, while later discussion of Metashell 2.0.0 highlighted a GDB-like template metaprogram debugger.
In practice, Metashell is used by C++ library authors and template-heavy codebases to experiment with types, evaluate metaprograms, and debug template instantiation flows. Boost.Metaparse documentation explicitly assumes Metashell can be used while building compile-time parsers, which places it in the same ecosystem as Boost.MPL, Metaparse, Clang, and Templight rather than in general-purpose C++ build tooling. The Homebrew package exposes both metashell and templight_metashell, matching that role as a specialist command-line tool for template metaprogramming work.
Sicherheitslage
generalized runtime or code generation signal.
yellow Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · runtime
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Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
metashell | cli | globales Executable | |
templight_metashell | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
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https://github.com/metashell/metashell
Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:metashell |
|---|---|
| Version | 5.0.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/metashell |
| Homepage | http://metashell.org |
| Repository | https://github.com/metashell/metashell |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | http://metashell.org |
| Lizenz | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Quellarchiv | https://github.com/metashell/metashell/archive/refs/tags/v5.0.0.tar.gz |
| Abhängigkeiten | zstd |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | cmake |
| Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken | libedit, libxml2 |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | metashell |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Quellspur
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