I dont see the point in relying on an API we know is going to be
removed. I was mainly talking about your issue of not being able to
compile on older macOS. So at compile time detect that the new API is
not available and if so, compile against the old one. Probably can do so
with Availability.h macros.

Ok, I'm fine with not having this in Big Sur. Is it possible to query MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED from setup.py? I need to do this to not add the UserNotifications framework to platform_libs.

You could just try to compile a small dynamically generated .m file and link with th framework, if it succeeds, use it, if not, use the older API. This is how configure traditionally works.

Please review.
I changed test_compile() to pipe stdout and stderr to /dev/null, so the error message is not visible. Does this cause any problems?

These were all the commits I wanted to add before the next release. Thank you for waiting a couple days with the release, it will make it much easier for me to update the kitty package for nix. You may now release the next version if you like.