Add the brand new (beta) GitHub hosted M1 runner into ci.yml

[erogluorhan]

Add "macos-14" to CI matrix for M1 testing

Overview

GitHub just announced their brand new M1 runner, "macos-14", for use. Let us give it a try in our CI actions.

See this PR's own action runs for a quick demo of it.

[rajeeja]

this is nice, I use M1:)
do they charge or count hours towards it?
the last i checked they were free for linux and some hour limit appled to anything windows or mac.

[erogluorhan]

No, they don't charge. It is available to open source, just like the other GH-hosted runners such as "macos-latest". Though, it's in beta. Currently our tests failed with it, I didn't dig into it to see if it was our code or their runner's fault. I use an M2 :)

[kafitzgerald]

Exciting to see this!

It looks like this is the problem: https://github.com/UXARRAY/uxarray/actions/runs/7734670366/job/21089077449?pr=685#step:4:12

The default must work fine for the current options, but obviously not w/ arm64

https://github.com/conda-incubator/setup-miniconda?tab=readme-ov-file#example-11-alternative-architectures

[kafitzgerald]

Well, that was false hope, but it looks like there's a workaround in this thread and work in progress to support this.

[erogluorhan]

Well, that was false hope, but it looks like there's a workaround in this thread and work in progress to support this.

Thanks a lot for pointing this out! It helped us overcome the architecture issue. Now is a shell issue I believe, which leads to python command not being recognized. On it!

[erogluorhan]

Yay, we got them all to pass!

Any ideas on cleaning up a bit the X64 vs. ARM64 conditioning for the "conda setup" step in the file would be appreciated.

[kafitzgerald]

Yay, we got them all to pass!

Any ideas on cleaning up a bit the X64 vs. ARM64 conditioning for the "conda setup" step in the file would be appreciated.

I think this might be the best we can do right now (open to ideas though). I did something similar over on geocat-viz.

I'm hopeful that once setup-miniconda actually has support for this it'll look a bit cleaner. There's a PR in review now to add it.