Brew: Support for macOS (OS X) 10.12.0

Created on 14 Jun 2016 · 4Comments · Source: Homebrew/brew

[ yep ] Ran brew update and retried your prior step?
[yep ] Ran brew doctor, fixed as many issues as possible and retried your prior step?
[yep ] If you're seeing permission errors tried running sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)?

Bug reports:

Add support for macOS 10.12.0
When installing/updating/upgrading any taps, you get the following
Warning: You are using OS X 10.12. We do not provide support for this pre-release version. You may encounter build failures or other breakages.

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stejmurphy

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Thanks for the feedback. We is us, support is this, breakage is absolutely a word, and while fixing issues on prerelease operating systems is not a priority for us, especially early in the release cycle, we do appreciate and accept fixes.

tdsmith on 24 Jun 2016

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Warning: You are using OS X 10.12. We do not provide support for this pre-release version. You may encounter build failures or other breakages.

There's basic support for macOS 10.12 already, Homebrew recognises that system & knows which Xcode/CLT people should be using, and brew tests will pass. Support is fairly rapidly being added on our side. What will take _significantly_ longer is formulae compatibility, which is more or less out of our hands beside doing some backporting where appropriate.

We're less than 36 hours into 10.12 being a "thing". The message is a warning that you'll see more breakage on 10.12 than you would 10.9-10.11. If nothing breaks, ignore the warning, but we're not going to axe the warning until the system drops stable.

DomT4 on 14 Jun 2016

Maintainers, it's important to be precise and avoid spreading FUD.
Warning: You are using OS X 10.12.
Almost correct. Apple changed the name to macOS.
We do not provide support for this pre-release version.
It's unclear who "we" is or what "provide support" means.
You may encounter build failures or other breakages.
Build failures occur all the time for many different reasons.
Please create pull-requests instead of filing issues.
What does this even mean? You don't want to know if your users are experiencing a problem?

chmaynard on 24 Jun 2016

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tdsmith on 24 Jun 2016

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If anyone (else) stumbles across this after the fact, you may wish to confirm your version of homebrew is updating past 1.0 (brew -v). I found myself getting the message above after brew update and brew upgrade, but still needed to follow the info in this thread on the homebrew forum to get updated correctly. The message no longer shows after I got upgraded from v 0.9x to 1.x.