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Re: Homebrew 7.0.0

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Post by mikae1 »

mikemcquaid wrote: post #2

Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3 (announced last year).

Thank you for Linux Homebrew! It works so damn well.

For me the distro package manager is for system packages, Homebrew and Flatpak for the user facing apps.

Re: Homebrew 7.0.0

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Post by daliusd »

basedpolymer wrote: post #10

And that's the end of Homebrew for me as a user. I like the app, but my old Intel MacBook apparently can't handle it anymore. I'm back to the old installation methods !

Same here, but I understand their position. Meanwhile I rely on packages publishing builds for Intel Mac in GitHub (surprisingly a lot) or building from source code. I just asked AI to build me install system.

Re: Homebrew 7.0.0

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Post by sillywalk »

lifty wrote: post #14
mikemcquaid wrote: post #2

Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3 (announced last year).

I think at one point you said you’re working on a rust rewrite? Is that still in the cards?

https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/

Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (fishshell.com)

906 points by jdxcode on Dec 28, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 198 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535217

Re: Homebrew 7.0.0

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Post by Achterlangs »

basedpolymer wrote: post #10

And that's the end of Homebrew for me as a user. I like the app, but my old Intel MacBook apparently can't handle it anymore. I'm back to the old installation methods !

FYI Macos will also stop with major updates for Intel macs. You can just keep using brew 6 on macos 26.

Re: Homebrew 7.0.0

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Post by lnenad »

basiliobeltran wrote: post #19
yladiz wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How long do you expect them to support Intel processors though? It’s been like 6 years since the last MacBook release had any Intel processor, and Apple doesn’t make OS updates anymore, so it doesn’t surprise me that Homebrew stopped too.

I have one of the last Intel Macs and works perfectly fine (on Sonoma). How long should I expect working tech being supported? I am already looking at Linux, but still need to get out of the Apple ecosystem. I am not going to spend +2500 Euros every 5 years on a laptop

What does saying "working tech" do for you? If I have a working Samsung CRT from 25 years ago do I ping them about smart TV support? Nowadays it's a shitty situation with planned obsolescence; but 6 years for an open source project dedicating resources to a dead end is more than enough and appreciated.
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