ci: drop Intel macOS Python wheel build#1612
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Closes apache#1608. The build-macos-x86_64 job ran on macos-latest, which has resolved to arm64 since GitHub's 2024 runner change, so it produced a duplicate arm64 wheel rather than an x86_64 wheel. Drop the job and remove its entry from merge-build-artifacts. The macOS arm64 wheel is still built by build-python-mac-win.
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Are you sure this is intel build ? it runs on macos-latest, which should be arm?
- this PR may be relevant maybe we should merge it?
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@milenkovicm See the PR description, section Rationale for this change.
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Thanks @martin-g. Yes, @milenkovicm this is an arm build named x86_64 - the original intent was to build for Intel.
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Which issue does this PR close?
Closes #1608.
Rationale for this change
The
build-macos-x86_64job in.github/workflows/build.ymlruns onmacos-latest, which has resolved to arm64 since GitHub's 2024 runner change. As a result it has been producing a duplicate macOS arm64 wheel rather than an x86_64 wheel, and no Intel macOS wheel has been published. Rather than restoring an Intel macOS build (e.g. by pinning tomacos-13or cross-compiling), this PR drops Intel macOS as a published wheel target. Users on Intel Macs can still install via the source distribution.What changes are included in this PR?
build-macos-x86_64job from.github/workflows/build.yml.needslist ofmerge-build-artifacts.The macOS arm64 wheel continues to be produced by the macOS leg of
build-python-mac-win.Are there any user-facing changes?
Yes: starting with the next release, no prebuilt wheel will be published for Intel macOS (
macosx_*_x86_64). Intel macOS users will need to install from sdist, which requiresprotocand a Rust toolchain locally.