# Install dashing with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix

Generate Dash documentation from HTML files. Version 0.4.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:dashing
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dashing
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install dashing
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/dashing/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#dashing
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/da/dashing/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:dashing
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dashing>
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **Source summary:** Generate Dash documentation from HTML files
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/technosophos/dashing>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/technosophos/dashing>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/technosophos/dashing#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/technosophos/dashing/archive/refs/tags/0.4.0.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- dashing (cli)
- dashing (alias)

## Build dependencies

- go

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 0.4.0
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/technosophos/dashing
- Upstream latest detected: 0.4.0 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Project history and usage

Dashing is a Go command-line generator for Dash-compatible docsets from existing HTML documentation.

### Project history

The public GitHub release record starts with version 0.0.1 in July 2015, followed by 0.2.0 and 0.3.0 later that year and a maintenance update in 2019 for Go 1.13. Its README describes the project as a maintenance-stage tool that maps HTML with CSS selectors into a complete Dash docset.

### Adoption history

Dashing's official README points users first to Homebrew and MacPorts, with prebuilt macOS binaries and Go installation as alternatives. That places it in the macOS documentation-tooling niche around Dash docsets rather than in a broad language-runtime ecosystem.

### How it is used

A typical workflow is to run `dashing create` in an HTML documentation directory, edit `dashing.json`, and then build a `.docset` bundle for Dash.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, Dashing is useful because it turns arbitrary upstream HTML docs into the SQLite-backed docset format used by Dash and related offline-documentation workflows.

### Timeline

- 2015: Initial 0.0.1 public release.
- 2015: 0.2.0 added regular expression support.
- 2019: 0.4.0 maintenance release updated the build to Go 1.13.

### Related projects

- Dash defines the docset format Dashing targets; Homebrew and MacPorts are documented installation paths.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/technosophos/dashing#readme>
- <https://github.com/technosophos/dashing/releases/tag/0.0.1>
- <https://github.com/technosophos/dashing/releases/tag/0.2.0>
- <https://github.com/technosophos/dashing/releases/tag/0.4.0>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** dashing
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 1
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - dashing: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/da/dashing/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - dashing: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/dashing/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [adr-viewer](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/adr-viewer/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, documentation, html.
- [cargo-docset](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-docset/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, docset, documentation.
- [gi-docgen](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gi-docgen/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, documentation, documentation-generator.
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- [jsdoc3](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/jsdoc3/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, documentation, documentation-generator.
- [literate-git](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/literate-git/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, documentation, html.
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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/dashing.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/dashing.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- 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