Failed to build installable wheels for the triangle package on Intel Mac with python 3.13

[niksirbi]

Error: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (triangle)

See CI failure here.

The error occurs on macos-13 runners (Inte Mac), with Python 3.13.
It's probably relevant that we recently switched the CI to run on Python 3.13 #442.

It' likely that the triangle package doesn't provide the required wheels.

[adamltyson]

Considering there are ARM wheels, should we just drop support for Intel macs?

[niksirbi]

That would be the easier solution, yes, and there's precedent of doing it for BrainGlobe as well, right?
Should I just remove the corresponding CI runner from the workflow?

[adamltyson]

Some repos still test on Intel, but others (e.g. cellfinder) are only ARM.

Should I just remove the corresponding CI runner from the workflow?

Yup. Tests can't fail if you don't run them :)

[adamltyson]

FYI we're coming up against the exact same issue in BrainGlobe now, so I think we'll likely scrap Intel support across the organisation. This problem will only get worse as time goes on.