Basic craft Mac questions

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> On 4. Jan 2020, at 10:01, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 9:37 PM Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, some first answers to myself:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 11:20:14 +0100
>>> Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
>>> wrote:
>>> Two basic questions on Mac:
>>> 1) What is the minimum version of MacOS that can reasonably be
>>> expected to work for using craft / binary-factory compiled packages?
>> 
>> The compiled packages seem to require MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) or higher.
>> Which is not really ideal, as the older versions still have a
>> significant market share.
>> 
>> I guess that won't be easy to fix, but let me just say that, going
>> forward, I hope the MacOS builder will not be upgraded until that
>> becomes absolutely necessary.
We have code for limiting the requirements but it's inactive...
> 
> Given the issues people have had with the latest version of MacOS
> (Catalina) I don't intend on updating it anytime soon.
> We were forced to upgrade if memory serves by requirements in Qt
> itself, so that is a limiting factor to a certain extent.
> 
> I'm a bit surprised that we're not able to target older versions of
> MacOS though even though we're running on a newer version ourselves
> (all our Windows builds are done on Win 10 machines, yet the final
> product can be run fine on Windows 7)
> 
>> 
>>> 2) Is there any chance of getting signed installers on Mac? That seems
>>> to be the only thing missing from a really smooth installation
>>> experience.
>> 
>> I see that craft already has code for signing, but apparently it is not
>> (currently) used on the binary-factory. Could that be changed?
> 
> Doesn't this require an Apple Developer ID?
> 
> Note that even signing doesn't help on Catalina, as I believe that
> started requiring all applications to be notarised by Apple.
> 
Yes....
>> 
>> Regards
>> Thomas
> 
> Regards,
> Ben