As far as I know, the Mac version of the tracker doesn't use any fancy new OS features (Intel/ARM Universal apps re-use a binary file format that has been around since the first round of Universal apps), so it should in theory be compatible with old macOS versions. Adding compatibility for macOS 10.13 in particular would allow people who aren't upgrading macOS to retain 32-bit support to use the tracker.
The app is currently being built for the default target of macOS 11. See https://users.rust-lang.org/t/compile-rust-binary-for-older-versions-of-mac-osx/38695 for info on how to fix that. I should find the lowest target where the app still compiles and runs on macOS 11, and build the amd64 version for that target. (No need to downtarget the aarch64 version since support for that starts at macOS 11 anyway.)
fenhl
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3 years ago
As far as I know, the Mac version of the tracker doesn't use any fancy new OS features (Intel/ARM Universal apps re-use a binary file format that has been around since the first round of Universal apps), so it should in theory be compatible with old macOS versions. Adding compatibility for macOS 10.13 in particular would allow people who aren't upgrading macOS to retain 32-bit support to use the tracker.
The app is currently being built for the default target of macOS 11. See https://users.rust-lang.org/t/compile-rust-binary-for-older-versions-of-mac-osx/38695 for info on how to fix that. I should find the lowest target where the app still compiles and runs on macOS 11, and build the amd64 version for that target. (No need to downtarget the aarch64 version since support for that starts at macOS 11 anyway.)