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

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Thanks a lot Matthias!
Perfect timing with the announcement of better MacOS packaging I made in
Norrköping :)

Marco Bernasocchi

QGIS.org Chair
OSGEO.org VP Europe
OPENGIS.ch CEO
http://berna.io

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025, 13:00 Tim Sutton via QGIS-PSC, <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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