if you rely on Homebrew it may be several months before the packages you need are all updated. A large part of software in Homebrew is already pre-compiled (bo

if you rely on Homebrew it may be several months before the packages you need are all updated. A large part of software in Homebrew is already pre-compiled (bottled) for High Sierra: % find Formula -name '*.rb' | wc -l 4363 % find Formula -name '*.rb' -exec grep "sha.*:high_sierra" {} \; | wc -l 3634 Most of the stuff that I have been installing the last one or two weeks was installed as bottles.