Support configuring current platform: otherwise cannot use osx-64 binaries (bioconda) on ARM macs

[corneliusroemer]

Support configuring current platform: otherwise cannot use osx-64 binaries (bioconda) on ARM macs

[ruben-arts]

He @corneliusroemer

This is indeed something we're not supporting yet. We've had a similar request on in this issue

Although its not super trivial, as we want a project to be completely reproducible and I believe to make your request work you need Rosetta on your machine and we can't check if that is installed yet.

On the short therm, in most cases it's not hard to build the conda package for osx-arm64 which packages do you need this for?

[baszalmstra]

I would want this to be supported out of the box without the user having to specify additional flags.

@ruben-arts Perhaps we should extend our logic in some places to use osx-64 as the "current" platform if the project is not configured for osx-arm64? With a small warning perhaps?

@corneliusroemer Do macOS x86 applications always work on macOS arm64? Or do you need to enable this somehow?