Heads up: macOS 10.15 requires notarized apps

Gregor Mückl gregormueckl at gmx.de
Mon Aug 12 16:38:46 UTC 2019


On Monday, 12 August 2019 at 12:19:32 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Any applications, this includes command line applications, will 
> require to be notarized on the latest version of macOS, 
> Catalina (10.15), which is available as a public beta.
>
> This means that by default DMD and related applications won't 
> run. It's possible to go into System Preference and launch the 
> application anyway, but that's a pretty poor user experience.
>
> I've created an issue for this [1] and directly contacted a 
> couple of core members.
>
> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20124

This is very OT.

Changes like this make me remember this story:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

I'm not a fan of Stallman and consider his opinions too extreme 
on several accounts. But every time someone builds general 
purpose computers that artificially limit what their owners can 
do, I keep thinking that we're taking yet another step towards a 
less free future.


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