Since 2020 Apple has switched to ARM processors (aka Apple Silicon). While there is a compatibility layer that allows x86 based software to still run on ARM based macOS, it would be preferred to offer Picard for Apple ARM processors.

This ticket is for tracking the requirements and progress on this. Before we can provide Picard for Apple Silicon all the dependencies need to support this and we need a build environment which allows us to build universal app packages.

• Python: Has support for Apple Silicon and universal 2 binaries since Python 3.9.1, see https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-391/
• Qt5: WIP https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85279 . Might only come for Qt6?
• PyQt5: ?
• PyInstaller: WIP https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/5315
• PyObjc: Seems to provide universal2 wheels
• Github Actions: macOS 11 images are in (private) preview.