Merge pull request #415 from Distributive-Network/Xmader/chore/wheel-macos-version-support

Make the wheel packages we build also support lower versions of macOS

Author: zollqir

.github/workflows/test-and-publish.yaml

@@ -201,6 +201,17 @@ jobs:
           WORKFLOW_BUILD_TYPE=${{ inputs.build_type }}
           BUILD_TYPE=${WORKFLOW_BUILD_TYPE:-"Debug"} poetry build --format=wheel
           ls -lah ./dist/
+      - name: Make the wheels we build also support lower versions of macOS
+        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'macos-12' || matrix.os == 'macos-14' }}
+        # Change the platform tag part of the wheel filename to `macosx_11_0_xxx` (means to support macOS 11.0 and above)
+        # See https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/binary-distribution-format/#file-format
+        # A wheel package file will only be selected by pip to install if the platform tag satisfies, regardless of whether the binary compatibility actually is.
+        # Otherwise, pip would fallback to compile from the source distribution.
+        run: |
+          cd ./dist/
+          for file in *.whl; do
+            mv "$file" "$(echo "$file" | sed -E 's/macosx_[0-9]+_[0-9]+/macosx_11_0/')";
+          done
       - name: Upload wheel as CI artifacts
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         with: