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Yup, it's a well established truism at this point that if you need a stable system (or don't have excellent data backups) you should never install the .0 version of any Apple OS. And while many Cocoa apps should be forwards-compatible out of the box, if you rely on Homebrew it may be several months before the packages you need are all updated.


if you rely on Homebrew it may be several months before the packages you need are all updated.

A large part of software in Homebrew is already pre-compiled (bottled) for High Sierra:

    % find Formula -name '*.rb' | wc -l
    4363
    % find Formula -name '*.rb' -exec grep "sha.*:high_sierra" {} \; | wc -l
    3634
Most of the stuff that I have been installing the last one or two weeks was installed as bottles.


Good to know!


Obviously just 1 data point, but I've been on High Sierra since the GM candidate came out. Smooth transition - everything just worked. Nothing about my development setup had to change.




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