Farewell, Homebrew. It's been a good run. - 2019 Intel iMac user.
We've all gone through it :-( Happy users of the (really good) software until our hardware gets "too old" and the inevitable rug pull.
Homebrew 7.0.0
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Re: Homebrew 7.0.0
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you implying that a 6 year old hardware is as good as a paperweight? Outside of the Apple fairyland this is just bonkers. I'm not blaming the Homebrew project/developers here, but the fact that many people are okay with deprecating perfectly fine hardware.
No, he’s asking what you think a reasonable support timeline is. An open source project supporting hardware 6 years old is pretty awesome.
6 years is really not a long time at all. You can probably find heaps of open source software out there that compiles and runs perfectly on 20 year old PCs. It's not like the maintainer has to do much to retain support--they just have to not make the software dependent on new operating systems.
Bits don't rot.
Re: Homebrew 7.0.0
#133These release notes appear generated by LLM, with the usual extreme verbosity. Wish a human had done a better job editing these.
An LLM helped with the initial tedium of rewording 1000s of PRs from maintainer centric language into user centric language. It was reviewed and edited (by a human) probably >20 times. Go look at the PR if you don’t believe me.
I used to do these all by hand and they took me multiple hours. I still probably spent over an hour, including a bunch of time on a family holiday today. Comments like this make me wonder why I bother sometimes.
Re: Homebrew 7.0.0
#134Today, 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.
On Linux I use mise to install CLI tools
Re: Homebrew 7.0.0
#135I prefer to use Mise for everything nowadays. homebrew bootstrap specifically. A lot easier to manage all of my packages in one single file, homebrew, Node packages, etc.
Re: Homebrew 7.0.0
#136I guess the Hackintosh era is (finally) facing its death...
Re: Homebrew 7.0.0
#137Re: Homebrew 7.0.0
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I checked, Mise is still a one-man show. That’s way too risky for a critical party of my supply chain for my taste.
this makes no sense to me, the reason i don't give anyone else the commit bit is only to _protect_ the supply chain. you should want as few people with that access as possible.
I think the concern is more if something happens to you or stop development for any reason, then the project is dead or would fork in a few separate directions
Re: Homebrew 7.0.0
#139I've been using homebrew for so long, I can't tell you how much it has helped me to spend more hours developing and less managing packages and updates, etc. Thank you so much, congratulations on the update!