Sign the installers

Chris M. chrismohrfeld at comcast.net
Thu Jun 28 00:48:32 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 28 June 2018 at 00:15:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 16:54:55 Manu via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> Hey people,
>>
>> So I had a few people in the office refuse to install DMD 
>> because when
>> they launched the installer, Windows displayed the prompt that 
>> it was
>> untrusted (ie, unsigned) and not offer the install button 
>> without
>> manual override.
>> True also for VisualD.
>>
>> Can we get a key and start signing the install packages?
>>
>> It would be super-cool to sign the 2.081 release since it's 
>> like, imminent ;)
>
> I'm certainly not against getting it signed (though I have no 
> idea what's involved with that). However, I'm surprised that 
> anyone actually pays attention to that or cares.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

My AV at work actually blocks DMD, so signing it would also help 
with whitelisting it and other D tools (I manage the AV anyways 
so I just moved myself to a more lax policy). I wouldn't be too 
surprised if this is the case elsewhere.


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