Update build process for MacOS desktop app #383
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The current build script creates dmg files for the desktop app that, when downloaded from GitHub/shared via Slack, show the following error for M chip Macs:
This PR updates
desktop/package.json
to what was used to get the v8.0.0 build working for arm64 (also currently works for x86, though only when run on a computer with an Intel chip).Also adds info to the dev docs about how we currently build & release for MacOS.
For more details on why we have to do separate builds for Mac, see #173