Support for intel mac

[Yury-Fridlyand]

GLIDE has a native component. Due to some build issues, it is not longer compiled for MacOS with amd64/x86_64 cpu. Apple does not produce new computers with such CPU type, but there a lot of such computers still exist.

[avifenesh]

We had a discussion about it lately, and there was a strong opinions against because of the complexity it brings.
I think we should, as i was approached with a request for it, but there is no agreement about it.
I think that we can avoid putting it in the CI, and not announcing support, but still build and release for it, for development, and not for production.
Maybe with announcement about it not being fully tested and for this reason we don't recommend it for production usage without further testing.
For the in between recommendation, I'll put 42. Unless you want to add this in between option.

[Yury-Fridlyand]

There are no issues with testing and releasing java and go clients. Node or python had troubles in toolchain installations on mac via Brew.

[jamesx-improving]

I agree with @avifenesh 's idea that:

I think that we can avoid putting it in the CI, and not announcing support, but still build and release for it, for development, and not for production.

This is exactly what I did for Go with PR #3231. The only thing I would do differently is that I'd announce it, but with clear definition of what's the nature of the support (Experimental? For-Local-Development-Only?). That way, we discourage production deployment but encourage potential contributors, with that specific platform as their primary development machine, to contribute to our project. Not to mention we have existing team members on this platform struggling with local development already.

Voted 42 based on above.

[ikolomi]

@Yury-Fridlyand There is no reason to invest in discontinued Intel MAC. Unless you have a serious use case or a customer request, please close the issue

[avifenesh]

There's 4 users already asking for it, i think it is now clearly needed.
@Yury-Fridlyand you can make it a task, that become more than our own comfy.

It is just for development, and mac runners are limited, lets add it with minimal matrix, one version, one language version.

@ikolomi CCing you so you follow the status.

[avifenesh]

@Yury-Fridlyand Im closing the conversation and opening an issue for a task.

[avifenesh]

#3443