macOS
brew install tractorgenlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de tractorgen pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
brew install tractorgenlocal Homebrew formula metadata
aperçu
Generates ASCII tractor art
historique
tractorgen is a deliberately absurd command-line program that generates ASCII tractor art. Its official page treats the joke seriously, framing the program as a contribution to 'ASCII tractor mechanics'.
The official page says tractorgen was written by Kbert, more as a dare than anything else, with original inspiration from SCOboy asking a dumb question. The page preserves the entire project in the style of old Unix freeware pages: introduction, news, binaries, source tarballs, packaging notes, changelog, mailing-list link, license, and related work.
Unlike many joke programs, tractorgen has a surprisingly detailed package history. The page records Red Hat packages in April 2000, VAX and OpenBSD binaries in September 2000, Windows binaries in March 2002, Debian packages and a web interface in April 2002, a FreeBSD port in December 2002, and migration of sources to GitHub in December 2008.
tractorgen's adoption history is mostly a tour of early-2000s packaging culture. The author page documents community-made binaries and ports across Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, VAX, Windows, and a web interface capable of generating very large tractors. Homebrew later packaged version 0.31.7, keeping the joke installable through a modern package manager.
The program's purpose is simply to generate ASCII tractors from a tractor coefficient. The official page notes that it enforces the 'fundamental theorem' that side-on ASCII tractors must have at least four wheels, and that attempts to make smaller tractors cause the program to abort and dump core.
tractorgen is package-nerd bait: a tiny gag program with real tarballs, RPM specs, Debian packaging files, FreeBSD port archives, a GPL notice, a GitHub mirror, and a Homebrew formula. It is significant less for utility than for showing how package ecosystems preserve Unix jokes as runnable artifacts.
posture de sécurité
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
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exécutables
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
tractorgen | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
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https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen/
métadonnées d'installation
| Clé du paquet | brew:tractorgen |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.31.7 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tractorgen |
| Page d'accueil | https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen/ |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/kfish/tractorgen |
| Docs amont | https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen |
| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Archive source | https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen/dl/tractorgen-0.31.7.tar.gz |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-07-10T10:41:25-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | tractorgen |
| 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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piste source
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
View the package source record on GitHub.