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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by blinkingled on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:12AM (#25252985)
Didn't know that, thanks - have they contributed to homebrew in the past? If they have then then it's just sloppiness to release hardware without contributing a port and maybe later on we will see it happen?
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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by my123 on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:24AM (#25253046)
Homebrew works today (w/ build all packages instead of prebuilt bottles available), however they have a policy of not having downstream patches, so that source trees upstream have to have the Apple Silicon patches.

For packages such as GCC, that of course will take a lot of time. For Java, there are other supported runtimes like Azul Zulu, but Homebrew just wants OpenJDK and not much else.

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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by saagarjha on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:32AM (#25253084)
Perhaps Homebrew Cask might be receptive to alternative Java runtimes?
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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by my123 on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:40AM (#25253158)
You need them to be registered on Homebrew as the Java package, if just for dependency resolving...
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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by saagarjha on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:57AM (#25253260)
Perhaps they could (ab)use the versioning system, vending it as openjdk@azul or something? I'm not an expert on how Homebrew does dependency resolution.
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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by RandallBrown on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:18PM (#25256992)
They hired Max Howell, the author of Homebrew. I don't think he works there anymore though.
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