Re: The status of Fedora Media Writer (was LiveUSB Creator)

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On Thursday, April 14, 2016 4:57:31 PM CDT Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 14, 2016 3:33:46 PM CDT Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> 
> >> > From the workstation meeting notes apr.13
> >> > 
> >> > 14:06:46 <sesivany> Python2 PyQt doesn't seem to be well maintained on
> >> > Mac and Martin has not been able to build a single installation file
> >> > which is what mac users expect.
> >> > 
> >> > What's meant by "single installation file"?
> >> > 
> >> > If Fedora Media Writer on OS X will be a self-contained .app
> >> > (directory of all resources, the .app extension makes it appear as a
> >> > single file to the user) then there are multiple ways to deliver that.
> >> > It can be tar.gz, zip, or dmg. User double clicks, then drags the
> >> > application to /Applications or ~/Applications or can even run the
> >> > program from ~/Downloads if they want. If it's not signed, by default
> >> > they get a message and have to go elsewhere to allow it to launch but
> >> > that's fairly well understood at this point by most users.
> >> 
> >> Can't Red Hat pay the $100 bucks to have a developer account and
> >> have it signed?
> >> 
> >> I'm pretty sure we have some people with developer accounts internally
> >> as well, and it would be better to make it as easy as possible to use.
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> >> g
> > 
> > We will only be shipping code that is signed.
> 
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDis
> tributionGuide/DistributingApplicationsOutside/DistributingApplicationsOutsi
> de.html
> 
> As far as I can tell, such code signing applications or installer
> packages is only possible in XCode, and XCode only runs on OS X, and
> to get a Developer ID certificate requires belonging to the Apple
> Developer Program, which requires agreeing to a EULA. If Red Hat is
> already a Apple Developer Enterprise Program member, great. If not,
> I'd advise any Fedora developer ask Fedora legal to review that EULA
> before they agree to it.


https://www.digicert.com/code-signing/mac-os-codesign-tool.htm says we need a 
cert and use their codesign tool 

Dennis

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