Farewell, Homebrew. It's been a good run.

- 2019 Intel iMac user.

mikemcquaid 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sorry we couldn’t support this for longer :(

From the release notes:

> The Intel support decision reflects the limits of a volunteer-run project: Apple have dropped Intel x86_64 support from macOS 27 Golden Gate and GitHub Actions will retire Intel macOS runners in autumn 2027. If Apple and Microsoft’s GitHub, two of the world’s largest technology companies, cannot continue supporting macOS Intel x86_64, sadly neither can Homebrew. MacPorts still supports macOS Intel x86_64 and is likely to provide better results on this platform.

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donatj 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My personal opinion, but I'd rather see wider macOS support than Linux support, if it's a sheer matter of where time is allocated.

Linux already has world class package managers.

	▲	mikemcquaid an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Linux Homebrew users would disagree. Supporting macOS Intel has been significantly harder, slower and more expensive for us the last few years than adding ARM Linux support. If it was easy and free we’d have kept it for longer (until Apple and GitHub killed theirs at least which is coming in less than a year).

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jezek2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How come that MacPorts supports macOS versions all the way back to 10.5 Leopard in the latest version?

	▲	sethaurus an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's an excellent question for the maintainers of the MacPorts project! It can supplement the very clear and polite answer you've already received from a maintainer of Homebrew.
	▲	kps an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Different philosophy of dependency management.