macOS 10.14 cannot install any versions after 20230615T171309Z

[joverlee521]

Found out that I could not install any versions after 20230615T171309Z while investigating nextstrain/cli#300.

Traced this to the update of nodejs in 20230628T211222Z from version 18.15.0 to 18.16.1.

The update of nodejs in conda-forge/nodejs-feedstock#310 included bumping the minimum macOS version to 10.15.

[jameshadfield]

Nothing seems obvious in the node changelog why it coudn't be build on MacOS 10.14, but conda-forge does indeed bump the minimum version to 10.15.

I presume this doesn't include new docker containers @joverlee521, or do they fail on 10.14 as well?

I think we have to draw a line somewhere regarding how much we invest in compatibility for the cross-product of {runtimes, nextstrain/augur/auspice versions, OS/arch versions}, and I would be tempted to categorise this as "won't fix".

[tsibley]

The conda-forge recipe bump on macOS version appears at a glance to be to make the newer C11/C++17 aligned_alloc() function available via a paired Clang version bump. See the error that was quoted.

macOS 10.14 went unsupported by Apple in October 2021. @joverlee521 It's probably time to upgrade since unsupported means no security updates!

[joverlee521]

Totally agree that we have to draw the line somewhere. I'm fine with closing this issue as "won't fix"!

I wonder if we want to add run_constrained in our recipe.yaml similar to what nodejs has in their recipe.

This at least provides a nice error message when I try to install nodejs with mamba:

$  mamba install -c conda-forge nodejs==18.16.1 --quiet
Could not solve for environment specs
The following packages are incompatible
├─ __osx is requested and can be installed;
└─ nodejs 18.16.1  is not installable because it requires
   └─ __osx >=10.15 , which conflicts with any installable versions previously reported.

Although, the error message is not as clear when I try to install with micromamba

v1.1.0 (version of micromamba we are using in Nextstrain CLI)

$ micromamba install -c conda-forge nodejs==18.16.1 --quiet
critical libmamba Cannot strip file extension from: __osx

v1.4.9 (latest version of micromamba)

$ micromamba install -c conda-forge nodejs==18.16.1 --quiet
critical libmamba Could not set URL (code: 14 - url = @)

[tsibley]

"not as clear" is quite an understatement…

[tsibley]

Is this a "won't fix" situation?