[Qgis-user] How to download QGIS for MacOs Ventura 13.5.2

[Garth Fletcher]

Hi Andrea,

re "/macOS High Sierra (10.13) or newer is required./"

In my experience, QGIS 3.32.x does NOT fully work on macOS High Sierra 
(10.13)
The problem is with some of the processes and the library routines they 
call.

For example, QGIS 3.32.0 cannot be used with WBT 2.2, because of "Symbol 
not found: __cg_jpeg_resync_to_restart", but QGIS 3.30.3 works correctly.

macOS High Sierra (10.13) is still used by many who depend on somewhat 
older machines.


Re the rest of the wording:

it suggests (to me) that the security issue begins with Catalina 
(10.15); however it is already present in 10.13 (and earlier).

System Preferences > Privacy & Security has long offered choices of allowing
  Apple software only, or
   " Apple + signed software.
So even signed software can be blocked.

So the instructions should apply to all macOS whenever QGIS refuses to 
launch.

Also, it should make clear that the QGIS app itself is what is 
control-clicked.
New users might think it is the .dmg icon...

The suggested changes seem an improvement, except for the "For Users of 
MacOS Catalina and above:" title.

What about:
*For Users of MacOS:*
After installing QGIS, the first launch attempt may fail due to security 
protections.
To enable QGIS control-click on its Icon in your Applications folder and 
select Open in the context menu.
A confirmation dialog will display where you can give permission for 
QGIS to run.
This only has to be done once.

Garth Fletcher

Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 18:34:29 +0100
> From: Andrea Giudiceandrea <andreaerdna at libero.it>
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] How to download QGIS for MacOs Ventura 13.5.2
> Message-ID: <bb703a84-4f40-4e9b-b7f1-7eefcc894a91 at libero.it>
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> Hi Garth,
> do you think the instructions available on qgis.org are OK or should
> them be improved?
>
> ****
> macOS High Sierra (10.13) or newer is required. QGIS is not yet
> notarized as required by macOS Catalina (10.15) security rules. On first
> launch, please control-click on the icon and choose Open from the
> context menu, after which a confirmation dialog is shown and you need to
> click the Open button.
> ****
>
> Please have a look at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/issues/1195
> in which there is a proposal to modify the instructions on qgis.org.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Andrea
>