brew-compat

• CLI tool to check homebrew formula compatibility for different macOS versions.
• Supports core bottles and casks. Does not support taps (third-party repositories).

Installation

This tool has been built with python3. You need to install Python3.x for this utility. Install this tool from PyPI (The Python Package Index) using pip:

❯ pip install brew-compat 

Running

• Use brew bundle dump to generate the Brewfile
• Run brew-compat to check the compatibility status

Options

• By default, compatibility is checked for Big Sur. Use --macos-version to change the macOS version to check against.
• You can use --export to export the results to CSV. It is written to a file called compatibility.csv
• Use --verbose to use verbose logging.

❯ brew-compat --help
usage: brew-compat [-h] [--macos-version {arm64_big_sur,big_sur,catalina,mojave,high_sierra,sierra,el_capitan}] [--verbose] [--export] [brewfile]

Check compatibility of brew formula against macOS versions

positional arguments:
  brewfile              Path to Brewfile

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --macos-version {arm64_big_sur,big_sur,catalina,mojave,high_sierra,sierra,el_capitan}
                        macOS version
  --verbose             Use verbose logging
  --export              Export results in CSV format