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macOS Mojave Homebrew: is restoring support for prebuilt binaries worth effort?
- chmaynard 5y agoHomebrew is shooting themselves in the foot with their decision to drop support for Mojave. I'm actively looking for another package manager and I suspect there are a number of developers who feel the same way.
- mikemcquaid 5y agoOr, as you'd said in a personal email to a Homebrew maintainer, "F*ck you, Homebrew": https://twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid/status/1453326455010697225 https://twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid/status/1453326455010697225
- ggm 5y ago"drop support" seems strong. Brew supports Mojave, it just doesn't have bottles for everything and won't make bottles for new things. Bottles are an optimisation surely?
- pxc 5y agoI think supporting macOS is challenging for any package manager, but Homebrew is in a tougher position than most w/r/t this decision. Their relatively tight coupling with the base system shrinks their dependency trees (in terms of the count of their own packages in each tree), but it makes supporting multiple versions of macOS more work than it might otherwise be. (Isolating packages from the base system is also work, of course, and it increases your space/download/compile requirements for getting the first user package installed. It's just that once you've done it, it spares you some of the 'if darwin is version XYZ' stuff.)
- josephcsible 5y agoIsn't Mojave not getting security updates anymore? How is it fair to want other people to run a known vulnerable operating system on their build servers just so that you don't have to upgrade?
- dan_hawkins 5y agoAFAIK there's quite high chance that Apple may issue a security update from time to time even for older OSes if it's really important.