macOS intel binaries #9073
Description
For the borg 1.4.2 release, I added macOS binary building on GitHub:
- Apple Silicon binary, built on macOS 14 GitHub runner
- Intel binary, built on macOS 13 GitHub runner (*)
I guess I will kill the macOS 10.12 Vagrant VM soon, which I have used to build macOS Intel binaries for older borg releases. This is just getting way too old, hard to keep alive, is super slow, and also I did not succeed in building a more recent macOS Vagrant VM.
(*) Problem:
The macOS 13 Intel GitHub runner is deprecated, but currently the only macOS Intel runner available for free for FOSS projects. GitHub says they will kill it in December 2025.
GitHub also has macOS 14 and 15 Intel runners, but currently only available for paying customers.
Guess we'll have to see which options we'll have after December 2025:
- try to build a universal2 binary on an Apple Silicon runner
- using another free macOS Intel runner, in case GitHub offers one
- using a paid-for macOS Intel runner
- stop building Intel binaries