can not run natively on macOS Silicon / ARMv8

[Han Xiao]

Describe the bug

It is an upstream problem. This means we can neither provide a native macOS silicon version nor ARMv8 in Docker image for now. Note, running under Rosetta 2 is fine, as it simply simulates x86/64

• Protobuf (in particular, protoc does not support armv8, there is no prebuilt wheel). protocolbuffers/protobuf#5154 (comment)

• There is an ongoing PR to protobuf protocolbuffers/protobuf#7999, protocolbuffers/protobuf#8196 (most promising one, also include 3.9), protocolbuffers/protobuf#8280

• gRPC also has no wheel(grpc/grpc#21283), but at least has to be manually compiled via:

GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_EXT_COMPILER_JOBS=8
pip install grpcio

Know Issues on Rosetta2

• urllib/request.py throws

Fatal Python error: Bus error

Thread 0x000000030b2a4000 (most recent call first):

workaround, use no_proxy='*' in os env. ref: https://bugs.python.org/issue28342

References

• https://github.com/danburkert/prost/issues/420
• grpc/grpc#25082

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[Jina Dev Bot]

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[Fionn Delahunty]

protocolbuffers/protobuf#8280 has now been merged. ✅