Add bottles for older versions of macOS
fniephaus opened this issue · 7 comments
Travis CI (and other CI providers) support many different versions of macOS (see here). On non-Catalina systems, xcnotary is built from scratch. This, however, can take more than 7mins, which is a long time for CI builds. It'd be great if bottles for older versions of macOS could be provided.
Many thanks,
Fabio
Thank you for the comment!
Would you be able to share the reason for not using Catalina to build? Would be helpful to gauge if a lot of people are doing this. FWIW, you can still target older OS X versions even if building with latest OS X.
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10.14.5 with Xcode 11 would be the oldest that could be supported due to e.g. the use of
xcrun altool. -
Def. please let me know if the tool works well for you on Mojave (I unfortunately don't have a test box on hand). While the tool will launch, my concern is with tool dependencies, namely
altool,spctl,codesignand any quirks in their behavior between OS X versions.
I would probably keep this issue open to gather more feedback. Would be most meaningful to standarize on the latest OS X/toolchain for everyone to have a consistent experience. In the ideal case, Apple would have provided a web-based API to submit builds/etc., so that the process could be completely platform-agnostic, but unfortunately it isn't the case at the moment.
Hi David,
First of all, thanks for your work on xcnotary! And thanks for the response.
Good to know that xcnotary requires Xcode 11 and later.
We can't use Catalina at the moment, because we also still target macOS 32bit. It makes sense to collect more feedback before starting to add support. I'll try to see if we can upgrade to Xcode 11 and use --force-bottle to install the Catalina bottle on Mojave in the meantime.
Hi @fniephaus, wanted to see if you've had a chance to try xcnotary with --force-bottle on your Mojave machine. Thank you!
Hi @davidvartan, yes...seems to work. Here's an example.
That's great, it confirms what I was hoping since the tool itself a self-contained binary other than dependency on Xcode stuff. Going to mark the bottle as compatible with both versions for convenience. Thank you for confirming!
This should be working now without --force-bottle. Give it a try please and let me know. (brew update && brew upgrade akeru-inc/tap/xcnotary if you're doing it locally.)
Seems to be working now, thanks!