alt Hacker NewsI will never use Homebrew again because I'm still sore that they dropped support for a Mac OS version that I was still using and couldn't upgrade because Apple didn't support my hardware anymore.
Any decent project should have a way to install without Homebrew. It's really not necessary.
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> and couldn't upgrade because Apple didn't support my hardware anymore.
If you really want, you may be able to upgrade the OS anyways with https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher.
Or use Homebrew on the old OS with TigerBrew (https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew), but people online suggest MacPorts, not only because it has first-party support but also because it’s apparently better designed.
The whole Apple ecosystem demands continually updates. You don't buy Apple and then complain about it.
Seems reasonable to not support an OS apple doesn’t support anymore
I guess I ran into the same thing. I try to install anything with Homebrew and it takes forever then breaks.
> and couldn't upgrade because Apple didn't support my hardware anymore
I'd classify that as an Apple problem rather than a Homebrew problem. If Apple themselves cannot be arsed to support an OS version, why would a volunteer project take on such a challenge?
For every piece of software I've fetched using Homebrew, there's a "compile from source" option available on Github or some other source repo.