As a blanket answer that may be true as that’s not the goal of the project, but technically, it’s totally possible depending on what you’re building. In the end, it’s all just C/C++ libraries you *could* download and build yourself.
The same is true for different versions of Linux distros. Anyway, I’ll stop talking technical then agree that you probably can’t build for a 10+ year old OSX version on a contemporary one, at least with the amount & type of dependencies you are dealing with. That being said, if it’s easy for people to build it themselves, then it’s simpler to focus on putting out a binary with more recent compatibility like 10.8+. The vast majority of OSX users are using 10.8+. My test builds of vanilla for OSX seem to work fine back to 10.8. I need to do some more testing to figure out what details I’m missing for it to work on 10.6 & 10.7, but then I’d need a computer running either of those at hand… maybe not worth it since people can much more easily build vanilla for themselves if/when they need to. -------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <https://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> > On Oct 10, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You’ll probably need to build form source in either environment if you want > > to be sure of the deployment target. Both Homebrew and Macports are focused > > on running OS software for the > > current system, much less so for building baked libraries to run on other > > systems. > > > > From #machomebrew on freenode: > > [13:50] <doubting_thomas> does homebrew support building packages on OSX > 10.11 for an earlier version of OSX, like 10.6? > [13:51] <doubting_thomas> well, i guess i should say earlier _versions_, like > compatible with 10.6 and up... > [14:36] <tdsmith> doubting_thomas: no > [15:01] <doubting_thomas> tdsmith: thanks. > [15:05] <tdsmith> doubting_thomas: sorry, yw > > -Jonathan
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