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I was recently greeted by Brew message that my Mac OS X is too old and is not supported :) It was simply a warning, the installation (GNU tar) run OK and gtar w
by Mikhail_Edoshin 7y ago
I was recently greeted by Brew message that my Mac OS X is too old and is not supported :) It was simply a warning, the installation (GNU tar) run OK and gtar worked. The OS is El Capitan and it's just turned 4 years.
- xhruso00 7y agoApple dropped security updates on El Capitan with release of Mojave. El Capitan is supported on MacBooks from 2009. I think it's time to upgrade.
- plorkyeran 7y agoUnder 1% of homebrew users are on 10.11 (https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/os-version/30d/ https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/os-version/30d/), so continuing to test on that OS version would not be a good use of the maintainers' time.
- reaperducer 7y agoInteresting that there are five times as many Brew events from Catalina machines than El Capitan machines, and Catalina isn't even out yet.
- guitarbill 7y agoEl Capitan machines are already set up, Catalina machines are being set up?
- reaperducer 7y agoSince macOS updates are free, is there a reason you haven't moved off of El Capitan? Do you just like the way it looks and feels? Is there an essential program that you use that need El Cap? Are you using a 2008 MacBook? I'm not being critical. I have to run Jaguar on a dedicated machine I keep in the closet for a niche reason, so I'm curious what problem you face.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 7y agoIt's old hardware, it cannot run anything newer: Mac Mini 2009. Pretty snappy otherwise (with maxed memory). It just sits on desk, I mostly use it via SSH.
- saagarjha 7y agoHomebrew in general is very aggressive about dropping support for older versions.