Does the llvmlite project plan to release pre-built wheels for macos-intel runners? The latest llvmlite release only has ARM wheels.
We don’t - only ARM is supported on macOS in the current release (and future releases). This is part of the compatibility requirements listed in Installation — Numba 0+untagged.740.g7484a86.dirty documentation
I see conda-forge has osx-64 packages though: llvmlite - conda-forge | Anaconda.org
This is part of what motivated asking. If one installs via pip (and pypi) then you can’t quite match what’s happening with what one can get with pixi / mamba / conda since there are no pre-built wheels on pypi. I assume the conda recipe for llvmlite just hasn’t been updated to drop the x86 support.
If the package successfully builds for osx-64, then distribution builders (conda-forge, Linux distros, etc) are free to carry on building for that platform and providing packages to users - it’s just not something that we’re doing as part of the official support on PyPI and the Numba conda channel. So it may be that conda-forge will continue to distribute osx-64 packages for a while longer.