Keep jdk11 GHA runners on macosx?

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Fri, 2024-11-15 at 12:47 +0100, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
> Any interest in keeping jdk11u building on newest XCode versions but
> failing in previous ones? Opinions?

Yes. We'd want to keep GHA working for macosx on jdk11u. It's an
important check to have for not inadvertently breaking the build.

Just to clarify:

You are proposing to require macos-13 or better with XCode 14.3.1 or
newer, for JDK 11u builds on macosx going forward?

If there is no way of building/running on older osx/xcode I guess there
is no other choice but to set this as a requirement for building going
forward?

It would be good to know what the community thinks.

Thanks,
Severin

> [1]
> macos-12 deprecation on 2024-12-03
> https://github.blog/changelog/2024-08-19-notice-of-upcoming-deprecations-and-breaking-changes-in-github-actions-runners/
> 
> Xcode 14 and 16 will be removed from macOS 14 on November 4
> https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10703
>