Is there any reason to have a build for each darwin kernel, when they are all identical?

[will]

I don’t need help really, I'm just curious about a situation I ran across, and I think Q&A is the right category, but I'm not sure.

The sorbet-static gem uploads identical copies of the pre-compiled binary for darwin-{14..22} every day https://rubygems.org/gems/sorbet-static/versions . There are no differences between any of them except for the kernel version number in the gemspec, the pre-compiled binary is the same in all of them.

It's worked fine, I've ran into a small edge case due to using nix and that causing me to run ruby built on darwin-22 on a darwin-21 machine. So I opened a PR to add a version-less upload.

I know the maintainers of Sorbet are hesitant to change their gem strategy ( sorbet/sorbet#6061 (comment) ) but it just made me curious: Is there any benefit to having all those specific versions? I don’t know enough about how ruybgems deals with platform versions to know.

I hope they take my PR to fix my small edge-case, but maybe it'd be nice if there weren't so many uplaods to rubygems.org if there isn't a reason anymore. I know other gems with pre-compiled binaries like Nokogiri don't do this.