Please provide Wheels for Apple Silicon about viztracer

[gaogaotiantian]

Cross-compile is one thing, testing is another. To support a specific platform, I'd like to at least run the test suite on it. Linux aarch64 might be an outlier - we do not officially support that, but we do have wheels for it. For MacOS M*, I'd like to make it right, and that's why I waited until the VM support from github actions.

The github action changes are already merged and everything worked fine (except for attach which will not be supported). The new version will be released after #391 is merged.

[gaogaotiantian]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I'd love to add support for M1, but currently viztracer relies on github actions to build, test and deploy(including buidling wheels). Even though github actions announced support for Apple M1 on October, it's still in public preview and it's only available at pay tier. A free macos-arm64 VM is not available for the public now. I hope (and believe) that it would be available in the future, and that's when viztracer can officially support MacOS ARM.

[gaogaotiantian]

Today github announced the free Mac VM with Apple silicon. We will proceed on this matter and support MacOS ARM in the next release (hopefully soon).

[cdeil]

@gaogaotiantian - wonderful! Thank you!

Just a note that there's many scientific Python projects like Numpy etc pp that use https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel or other tooling to cross-compile and produce wheels also for the Mac ARM platform already since years.

I don't know much about the details, just FYI in case the new solution you implemented doesn't do all you want that might be an alternative.