<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The same is true for different versions of Linux distros.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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+.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 10, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <<a href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com" class="">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div class="">> 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 <br class=""></div><div class="">> current system, much less so for building baked libraries to run on other systems.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3340" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3339" class=""><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3338" class=""><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3405"><div id="yiv6364093514" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3404" class=""><div class="yiv6364093514" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3403"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_4885" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From #machomebrew on freenode:<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3624" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3625" class="">[13:50] </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3626" class=""><</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3627" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3628" class="">doubting_thomas</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3629" class="">> does homebrew support building packages on OSX 10.11 for an earlier version of OSX, like 10.6?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3630" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3631" class="">[13:51] </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3632" class=""><</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3633" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3634" class="">doubting_thomas</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3635" class="">> well, i guess i should say earlier _versions_, like compatible with 10.6 and up...</span></div><div class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3682" class="">[14:36] </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3683" class=""><</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3684" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3685" class="">tdsmith</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3686" class="">> doubting_thomas: no</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3716" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3716" class="">[15:01] </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3717" class=""><</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3718" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3719" class="">doubting_thomas</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3720" class="">> tdsmith: thanks.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_4924" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3728" class="">[15:05] </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3729" class=""><</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3730" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3731" class="">tdsmith</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_3732" class="">> doubting_thomas: sorry, yw</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476129945352_4884" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Jonathan</div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>