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> Also, ports for older/ancient versions of OS X are frequently source-only, but since Homebrew doesn’t support such systems at all, it's not really a fair poin
by weaksauce 6y ago
> Also, ports for older/ancient versions of OS X are frequently source-only, but since Homebrew doesn’t support such systems at all, it's not really a fair point of comparison.
On an old, unsupported, system homebrew drops down to compiling. just the other day it compiled for four hours just to update one program. kinda infuriating really since there are downloads for those packages still.
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- saagarjha 6y agoI'm surprised it still works, to be honest–Homebrew is usually fairly aggressive about dropping support for older systems.
- Hackbraten 6y agoWe don’t support any scenario where things are built from source (i. e. we won’t help you if things break) so technically support has indeed been dropped.
- weaksauce 6y agoIs there no way to enable downloads of builds in homebrew on those systems with the caveat that perhaps it'd have to go back to compiling if there aren't any?
- Hackbraten 6y agoThe bottles no longer exist. The nodes that used to build High Sierra bottles have been re-commissioned to build Big Sur bottles.