conda-forge
native builders of linux-aarch64
Your question:
There are now options for building natively on Arm within the Azure pipelines and free Github runners
Conda Forge is still using a mix of emulation and cross-platform builds to support the 2000+ packages that now have a native linux-aarch64 build.
It would save a lot of time (emulation), and effort (cross-platform builds) - if the defaults could migrate to the new runners or an Arm pipeline.
Has this been considered - are there blockers, or guidance for applying this at the feedstock level?
(note manual attempt to do it is suggested here: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/issues/2243)
There are technical blockers here related to how conda-forge runs its backend services. We want to unblock them and are actively working on it, but it will take time.
