Naive question, does Arrow have any governance or guarantees that deprecation of a target platform gets X number of releases before finally being deprecated?
It looks like Homebrew deprecated support without declaring the last supported version. Homebrew discussion: https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/7044 > On Sep 22, 2026, at 15:43, Sutou Kouhei <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > I checked PyArrow's download stats for macOS Intel at > https://sql.clickhouse.com/ with the following query: > > SELECT countIf(filename LIKE '%macosx%x86_64%') AS macos_x86_64, > count() AS total, > round(100 * macos_x86_64 / total, 2) AS percent > FROM pypi.pypi > WHERE project = 'pyarrow' > AND date BETWEEN '2026-08-22' AND '2026-09-21' > > You can see the result by curl: > > $ curl > 'https://sql-clickhouse.clickhouse.com/?user=demo&query=SELECT%20countIf%28filename%20LIKE%20%27%25macosx%25x86_64%25%27%29%20AS%20macos_x86_64%2C%20count%28%29%20AS%20total%2C%20round%28100%20%2A%20macos_x86_64%20%2F%20total%2C%202%29%20AS%20percent%20FROM%20pypi.pypi%20WHERE%20project%20%3D%20%27pyarrow%27%20AND%20date%20BETWEEN%20%272026-08-22%27%20AND%20%272026-09-21%27%20FORMAT%20PrettyCompactMonoBlock' > > ┌─macos_x86_64─┬─────total─┬─percent─┐ > 1. │ 332854 │ 335300029 │ 0.1 │ > └──────────────┴───────────┴─────────┘ > > macOS x86_64 wheels account for only about 0.1% of all > PyArrow downloads in the last 30 days (332,854 out of > 335,300,029), so I think we can drop it. > > > Thanks, > -- > kou > > In <CAD1RbrooLnZ6Z28BihLa4oebK=kzubry1m008tfus0awapo...@mail.gmail.com> > "[DISCUSS] Drop macOS Intel support" on Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:35:42 +0200, > Raúl Cumplido <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We have started finding several issues [1], [2] on some of the Arrow >> repositories due to Homebrew stopping their builds (and support) for >> macOS Intel bottles [3]. >> >> macOS has stopped supporting macOS Intel on their latest (macos-27) release. >> >> I'd like to propose dropping support for macOS Intel as we can't test >> some of the setups anymore on our CI. >> >> Regards, >> Raúl >> >> [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow-java/pull/1306 >> [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/51402 >> [3] https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers#future-macos-support
