Into the future

[Bob Sneidar]

Okay, so I am at the point that I cannot build apps without codesigning and notarizing. Livecode will throw an error now if I try and don't have these certificates installed. Great. 

So I have been going through the tutorial, and I see I have to be an Apple Developer, which means I have to shell out yet another $100 per year. Fine, I did that, even though my app is for internal consumption only. 

Now It appears that for me to get the certificates needed to create a Mac standalone, I need xCode! Okay, I go to download xCode, and it will not install because my MacOS is too old! 10.15.1 is apparently ancient! So I am at the point now where I am asking myself, is this really worth it? After all the back and forth on the list where people's certificates expire, or the version of xCode they are forced to use isn't compatible with one thing or another, is building Mac standalones really worth it? 

So my question is, do I really have to go through all this just to create a Mac standalone from livecode? Or do these other utilities, mrSignNotarizeHelperV3 for example, eliminate the need for all of that? 

Bob S