> I'd argue that more time has been spent writing emails on this issue than it would take for each person to take one external, make a fat build, and upload to deken.

I'll still take quite some time to get ready to compile for M1 by updating my OS and XCode, and I don't have an apple silicon mac to test, so even then I'd need help testing.

We need to document and explain the situation to people anyway, I think this discussion is useful for that. Just a mentioning to run roseta for older externals is fine by me, hopefully it'll prevent other people downloading the new release not knowing why externals aren't running anymore.

today i've uploaded two more (for which i feel some slight responsibility)

Philip Stone helped me and sent me M1 binaries for ELSE and Cyclone he compiled himself, I just uploaded them to deken. So count two more in ;)

Again, I hope to be able to do it in a couple of weeks or so myself when I provide a release update for both.

Cheers