[Gretl-devel] Re: macOS security

On 30 Dec 2019, at 00:59, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote: > Ah, it's actually not as bad as I thought. I was able to configure two-factor authentication via one-time access to a current Mac, and apparently they're willing to send access codes to android phones! > > So I've now managed to renew my Apple developer status. OK, so I'm now once again a certified developer. But I hadn't properly taken on board Berend's comments about the "notarization" of one's code by Apple. I've now read up on that and I see it's going to be a big problem. So far as I've been able to determine, at this point there are no open-source cross-platform tools to accomplish this: it has to be done via Xcode. Hopefully free tools will emerge, but as things stand it looks like gretl packages for Mac will have to be produced on a current Mac, if they're to work on Catalina or higher from February 2020 onward. From the point of view of a free software developer, this is much more onerous than the Microsoft certification requirement. I may be able to use my wife's iMac for this purpose for releases, but it will be far too much bother for snapshots -- so Mac snapshots may have to be discontinued unless a Mac user is willing to step up and offer to produce them (which would require their getting Apple developer status).

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