💥 Proposal

What feature you'd like to see

Expand the number of prebuild environments, and increase compatability. (Perhaps using docker images rather than the GitHub machines directly, giving greater control of the build environment).

Suggested environments:

• ARM
• Alpine Linux (or other musl based environments)
• Apple M1 (Currently blocked by hardware access)

Motivation

At present it is necessary to build from source for several platforms, and in the case of Linux the environment is automatically upgraded by Github as part of their regular maintennance, therefore compatibility can vary from version to version with little prior notice. See #2266

Pitch

Many of the support requests relate to issues with the build process, which should be reduced if prebuilt binaries were available for these platforms.