Should use prebuilt binary and remove dotnet dependence in brew install

[oxoxoxox]

Dotnet is only used to build officecli.
I think there is no need to add dotnet dependence in brew install.
Brew should use prebuilt binary file to install.
It's not elegant to build binary in the client computer.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/o/officecli.rb

[goworm]

Thanks for the suggestion — I agree a prebuilt, zero-dependency binary is nicer, and one actually exists. Two Homebrew policies are what force the dotnet dependency in the brew install path specifically:

1. homebrew-core does not accept prebuilt binaries. Formulae must build from source (only a handful of exceptions like Go/Swift). A prebuilt binary is what a cask distributes — and our cask submission was declined per Homebrew's written policy: an open-source, CLI-only tool must first ship as a homebrew-core formula (built from source); only if that is rejected can it go back to cask. So the "just ship the binary" route is closed on Homebrew's side, not ours.

2. depends_on dotnet was a maintainer requirement, not our preference. We originally submitted a self-contained build (--self-contained, no dotnet dependency, a single ~30MB binary). The reviewer asked us to switch to --no-self-contained + depends_on "dotnet" because the self-contained build was too slow and kept getting the CI timed out/cancelled. We complied so it could be merged.

If you want the truly standalone, zero-dependency single binary, it already ships — use the curl | bash installer or the self-contained assets on the GitHub Releases page (SelfContained + SingleFile). Only the brew install path carries the shared dotnet runtime, and that's down to the two constraints above rather than a limitation of officecli.

[oxoxoxox]

@goworm
Thank you for the detailed explanation.
curl will be my option.