speedtest-cli: deprecate

[eleanordoesntcode]

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speedtest-cli has failed to work for me for the past year. It seems it tries to fetch from an old list of servers, which tends to 429 very often. Fixes have been available for a while, but the maintainer of the project hasn't sent any message about them or touched the repository for the past 5 years. This could probably be fixed with patches, but first I think it is logical in that state to deprecate the formula.

[chenrui333]

it seems working fine for me

> speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Comcast Cable (73.226.172.182)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by x99.cloud (New York, NY) [3.56 km]: 24.486 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 304.67 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 126.78 Mbit/s

[eleanordoesntcode]

Weird, testing on my end I've always had an output along those lines:

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Free SAS (***)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
ERROR: Unable to connect to servers to test latency.

The fact I have a dedicated IP means this isn't a "mass NAT" sort of issue.

[straxhaber]

Ookla (owner of speedtest.net) has a first-party program and formula tap here:
https://github.com/teamookla/homebrew-speedtest

I would contribute it to homebrew-core or homebrew-cask, but:

• homebrew-core doesn't accept closed-source code you can't build from source
• homebrew-cask doesn't accept code that isn't notarized by Apple

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Otherwise, this is just a tip for anyone else looking for an alternative.

[bevanjkay]

Closed source software can be contributed to homebrew-cask instead.

[straxhaber]

@bevanjkay doesn't homebrew-cask require that it be notarized with Apple now?

This seems to fall into the gray area between homebrew-core and homebrew-cask.

[bevanjkay]

No, not really a gray area. Closed source software that doesn't pass Apple's Gatekeeper checks just can't go in any official Homebrew repository. But it looks like the binary does pass Gatekeeper, so you could open a PR to add the cask to homebrew-cask.

[straxhaber]

@bevanjkay Are you sure? I tapped their cask and downloaded it, and I had to go to Security & Privacy to approve the binary before it would run. If indeed it is allowed in homebrew-cask, I'd happily submit a PR (and had even prepared one but held off because I thought this wasn't allowed.)

[bevanjkay]

Ah yes, you're correct. I download it with wcurl which must remove the quarantine attribute.
Probably best in your own tap or just use the ookla one for now then.

[straxhaber]

@bevanjkay Thanks. Yeah, I'll use their tap for now. I wish it could be added to Homebrew. Hopefully my comment above leads others to find the official tap if they depended on speedtest-cli.