[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] MacOS Qt6 builds / Notarization

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Matthias

This is so exciting - thank you for bringing this work together! I look
forward to testing it on my wife's mac soon.

Regards

Tim

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-PSC <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Over the last few months I've made good progress on the mac build front.
> Since the beginning of the year, a pull request has been open that builds
> QGIS against recent, updated dependencies and Qt6 and creates a dmg
> installer for download.
> These packages provide universal binaries that work natively on Intel x64
> and ARM machines.
>
> Overall, the feedback of testers has been encouraging and many things
> could already be ironed out.
>
> Since last week it is now also possible to download notarized versions of
> these builds. The scripts are in
> https://github.com/opengisch/qgis-notarize/ and in the actions on this
> repository, the notarized packages can be downloaded and we also have
> encouraging feedback there.
> Eventually I would like to only notarize releases (and not pull requests)
> and use an OSGEO certificate (not the current OPENGIS.ch one) and produce
> the packages on a repository under the qgis organization. I'll handle that
> in the upcoming weeks.
>
> Since this is a complete refactoring and cleanup of the mac build chain,
> it would break the current Qt5 builds and was therefore not merged to not
> break releases on the QGIS 3 series.
>
> With the last minor release QGIS 3 approaching, I would like to proceed
> with merging this right after 3.44 has been branched off. The pull request
> is rather large so it's good if this has a long cooldown period before it's
> released with QGIS 4 later this year. Whoever feels comfortable reviewing
> cmake code changes, please do so before Friday next week, June 20.
>
> Thanks a lot and best wishes
> Matthias
>
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