Feature request: support non-mac development platform
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- electron, macos, typescript
- Domain
- build-system, desktop
Research direction
The issue does not name any files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the platform-specific build logic for this package and determine which limitation requires macOS; done means producing universal packages from non-macOS development platforms without breaking existing x64 and arm64 use cases.
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Description
Creating a universal package is useful, but this package requires the user to be on a mac development environment to use it. This doesn't seem like it should be necessary. Requiring a mac build environment creates friction for using this tool.
Suggestion: Make this package work regardless of the development platform. I don't know how feasible this is as I am not sure what technical limitation is currently making it platform-specific.
For context, we have a game on Steam which we release Windows / Linux / Mac versions for. We have been releasing a darwin-x64 package, but we have users reporting slowness on modern macs. If we switch the mac packages to arm64, then it would be a compatibility break for users on older x64 Mac machines, so we were considering using universal packages, but the requirement of using a mac build platform is making it more difficult than it ought to be to make a universal package, and we will probably have to go with a different, less elegant solution.
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 148
- Forks
- 48
- Avg merge
- 3h 57m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 5
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