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> you don't need to stay on the latest version Homebrew only provides support for Apple-supported macOS versions though. I found out the hard way when a brew

> you don't need to stay on the latest version Homebrew only provides support for Apple-supported macOS versions though. I found out the hard way when a brew upgrade on Mojave (the last macOS version to support 32-bit apps) took hours to complete, because it was compiling plenty of stuff from source. This isn't a complaint. I understand that it doesn't make much sense to provide precompiled binaries for obsolete macOS versions that are likely to have security vulnerabilities.

tensility 1y ago
Hosting content isn't free. It makes good sense for Homebrew to only host pre-built bottles for the configurations that the vast majority of MacOS users are using (and should be, if the machine is ever attached to the public internet). If you are the kind of user who doesn't fall into this category, it's a feature not a bug that you can still build the catalog from source on your own dime.