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Homebrew 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
by chmaynard 5y ago
Homebrew 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.)