The reason we aren't doing this for more packages is basically people power and hosting (as I'm not sure Sourceforge would be happy we hosting the number of binaries we'd want to have).
Hope that explains a bit. Feel free to comment if you think we're taking a good/bad approach here.
Hundreds of organizations donate mirror space to linux distributions (e.g. http://www.debian.org/mirror/list). I'm sure some of them would provide space to homebrew.
I'm the guy who implemented the feature and I am realising that as I didn't shout very loudly people don't realise that it exists.
For example Qt has a bottle: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula...
The reason we aren't doing this for more packages is basically people power and hosting (as I'm not sure Sourceforge would be happy we hosting the number of binaries we'd want to have).
Hope that explains a bit. Feel free to comment if you think we're taking a good/bad approach here.