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Install modman with Homebrew

Module deployment script geared towards Magento development. Version 1.14 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install modman

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Module deployment script geared towards Magento development

Commands and aliases

  • modman

history

Project history and usage

modman, short for Module Manager, is a Bash deployment script by Colin Mollenhour, copyrighted from 2009 and strongly associated with Magento extension development. Its README explains the original pain point: some software, especially Magento, forced extension files to be interleaved through core application directories, making version control and deployment awkward. modman answered that by keeping each module checked out under `.modman` and maintaining symlinks into the target tree according to a mapping file.

Project history

In practice, modman became a small Unixy tool for Magento developers who wanted separate repositories for extensions before Composer became the dominant PHP packaging path. It supports Git and Subversion checkouts, a deploy command for already-checked-out code, and a plain text mapping file rather than a package registry. Community Magento posts and extension READMEs used it as an installation path, and a 2015 Magento 2 development article identified Colin Mollenhour as its creator and described the ability to attach multiple local repositories to a Magento project as its key feature.

How it is used

The Homebrew formula packages the `modman` executable for macOS and Linux users. Its niche is historical but still legible: it is not a general package manager so much as a symlink-based module layout tool for codebases that predate cleaner extension packaging.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
modmancliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.14
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected1.14

https://github.com/colinmollenhour/modman

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:modman
Version1.14
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/modman
Homepagehttps://github.com/colinmollenhour/modman
Repositoryhttps://github.com/colinmollenhour/modman
Upstream docshttps://github.com/colinmollenhour/modman#readme
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/colinmollenhour/modman/archive/refs/tags/1.14.tar.gz
Bottleavailable (on all)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namemodman
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Same workflow

  • deployerShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools, php.
  • doubledownShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools.
  • fabricShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools.
  • git-ftpShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools.
  • kamal-proxyShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools.
  • kappShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment