[GNC] MacOS Catalina upgrade question

[Adrien Monteleone]

Thanks for the update.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Oct 7, 2019 w41d280, at 5:20 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Oct 7, 2019, at 12:27 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
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>> Since Catalina was released today, I figured I start this thread because questions will arise.
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>> I’m not one to early adopt an OS upgrade. I usually wait a spell for the particular vendor to work out the initial kinks. But I’m curious if GnuCash 3.7 is ready to run on Catalina. I know there is a new Notarization requirement. Is 3.7 notarized? Or should Mac users wait for 3.8 to upgrade their OS?
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>> Also, I saw this today: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09032019a
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>> Does point #2 cover the issue with FinanceQuote.app not being signed with GnuCash’s developer ID?
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> Adrien,
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> It's FinanceQuote Update.app, and I didn't include it in the 3.7 dmg because it's not sign-able and so can't be notarized and so Catalina would reject the dmg. That said, I just figured out how to make it signable... but it doesn't quite work because it won't build XS modules--in particular, JSON::Parse. It may come back in the future if I can work out the problems.
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> OTOH there's a warning in the Catalina release notes that all of the scripting languages--perl, python, and ruby are mentioned--are provided for "legacy" reasons and that they may be an extra download or something in a future release. On the other hand, python3 is back.
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> The news item you cited is incorrect, as is the Apple Developer page about notarizing legacy apps: I tried notarizing without hardened runtime, and separately with unsigned binaries. Both failed. Fortunately the 10.9 SDK is acceptable so GnuCash 3.7 bundle is notarized and should work fine on Catalina. There's also a notarized Gnucash-Intel-3.6-2.dmg on Sourceforge.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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