I was planning to keep using my Intel Mac for a few more years, so this is a bit disappointing. The note about “macOS Intel x86_64 will move to Tier 3, dropping CI support, and no additional bottles will be built” sounds like Homebrew is basically ending active support soon. Does anyone know what the timescale is for deprecating macOS Intel entirely? It feels like devs are moving on from Intel Macs even faster than Apple itself. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what “Tier 3” actually means here, but if no bottles are built anymore, that’s going to make installs a lot less convenient.
Found a link, and tier 3 sounds brutal. Time to look for alternatives... :(
Yes, active support dropped for macOS Intel September 26, won’t work at all on macOS Intel September 27.
We’d love to support everything indefinitely but lack the resources as a volunteer run open source project to do so, particularly when GitHub Actions and macOS itself will be stopping elements of their support for macOS Intel on similar timescales.
Found a link, and tier 3 sounds brutal. Time to look for alternatives... :(
https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers