GitHub CI doesn't support rendering on metal for MacOS

[spydon]

Checklist

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• I made sure that the issue I am raising doesn't already exist

Current bug behaviour

This is not a bug from our side, but from GitHub CI.
They don't support rendering on metal for their MacOS CI hosts which makes it impossible to use Flutter 3.7.0, so currently we've had to pin the version to 3.3.10.

Expected behaviour

It should work with the 3.7.0, once GitHub CI has fixed that issue we should remove the version pinning here:
https://github.com/bluefireteam/audioplayers/pull/1399/files#diff-faff1af3d8ff408964a57b2e475f69a6b7c7b71c9978cccc8f471798caac2c88R186

Steps to

More information

actions/runner-images#1779 (comment)

[Gustl22]

See also:
actions/runner-images#183 (comment)
flutter/flutter#108304
flutter/engine#37733

[Gustl22]

We may can get the tests running with latest Flutter on M1 mac as stated here:
flutter/flutter#118469 (comment)
Maybe Github supports metal graphics for these, or some other magic is happening.

[spydon]

We have no option of choosing to run on M1s on GitHub yet:
actions/runner-images#2187
github/roadmap#528

[Gustl22]

Ah that explains, why it worked. Of course self-hosted runners have GPU support.

[spydon]

If anyone would be keen to set up a MacOS runner on Codemagic maybe @erickzanardo would be willing to spend some of his credit on there, because if I remember correctly he won an insane amount of those credits on a hackathon 😅

[erickzanardo]

Sure thing!

[Gustl22]

Maybe GH is doing something about it:
actions/runner-images#183 (comment)
We are not in a hurry, as I expect, support for Flutter 3.3.x will at least be a year or so. But then maybe it is time to switch.

[erickzanardo]

Is there any other instances on GH that would allow that? If so, and if we want to keep all our actions running on a single CI service, we may be able to pay for it with Blue Fire's fund

[spydon]

Is there any other instances on GH that would allow that? If so, and if we want to keep all our actions running on a single CI service, we may be able to pay for it with Blue Fire's fund

There is not, possibly Q3 2023 according to their roadmap.

[erickzanardo]

Got ya!

We can use codemagic then, the only thing is that, as you said, my insane amount of credits are tied to Cherry Bit's team, so I would need to put AP under that team instead of creating a Blue Fire team for example.

If you don't mind it, I am ok with it too

[Gustl22]

I would recommend waiting for like 2 to 3 month. Afterwards, Flutter reintroduces OpenGL support or GH has something up in their sleeve, and we would do the transfer / rewriting actions for nothing. Especially cause we have the time, flutter / flutter community not had the chance to react on it, and credits are also exhausted some day in the far future (?), although I would really appreciate this option, if there's no solution for GH.

[erickzanardo]

Alright, makes sense IMO.

About the credits exhausted, indeed they will! But I am fine with spending part of the income that Blue Fire gets from Patreon and sponsors into something like this.

Anyway, lets wait then, but feel free to reach me if we decide to move to codemagic.