As an additional data point, I checked the downloads for PyArrow using the pypinfo CLI, and for the last 30 days, the downloads for x86_64 was 6.6% of all MacOS downloads (57,121 downloads for x86_64 vs 807,414 for arm64).
(this of course comes with all the caveats about reliability/usability of the PyPI download information) On Tue, 22 Sept 2026 at 14:49, Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have an Intel Mac (2019 Mac Pro, macOS 26) for testing purposes, I'd be > willing at least to contribute to testing commits to main if it's helpful > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 6:43 AM Jacob Wujciak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > > One question is how we want to handle macOS Intel binaries going > > forward, > > as without CI coverage they may eventually break as well. > > > > If we are dropping support due to lack of CI machines, we should also drop > > intel binaries imo. We might be able to still build them via > > cross-compilation but that will mean extra maintenance effort that we want > > to avoid. Right? > > > > Jacob > > > > > > Am Di., 22. Sept. 2026 um 12:53 Uhr schrieb Ruoxi Sun < > > [email protected] > > >: > > > > > +1 to dropping macOS Intel support. > > > > > > I think we can still allow source builds on Intel macOS on a best-effort > > > basis, but without CI coverage or any guarantee that they will continue > > to > > > work. > > > > > > One question is how we want to handle macOS Intel binaries going forward, > > > as without CI coverage they may eventually break as well. > > > > > > *Regards,* > > > *Rossi SUN* > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 16:52 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > As discussed on the PR/issue, I'm in favor of dropping MacOS x86 on the > > > CI > > > > (it will be hard to maintain longer). > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > JB > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 10:36 AM Raúl Cumplido <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > We have started finding several issues [1], [2] on some of the Arrow > > > > > repositories due to Homebrew stopping their builds (and support) for > > > > > macOS Intel bottles [3]. > > > > > > > > > > macOS has stopped supporting macOS Intel on their latest (macos-27) > > > > > release. > > > > > > > > > > I'd like to propose dropping support for macOS Intel as we can't test > > > > > some of the setups anymore on our CI. > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Raúl > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow-java/pull/1306 > > > > > [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/51402 > > > > > [3] https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers#future-macos-support > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
