get app notarized by Apple

[rgaudin]

App should be notarized by Apple to avoid warnings and manipulations on first start on Catalina+

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[kelson42]

@rgaudin I don’t want to postpone really much longer 2.4 release, but should we not do that as well?

[rgaudin]

Currently, the only thing preventing us from notarizing the app is the Etcher binary we are bundling to write images to SD-cards.

Balena abandonned etcher-cli at version 1.4.8 without reason and without responding about those reasons. It's possible it is to save their Etcher Pro market as all the competition is GUI based.

etcher-cli 1.4.8 uses pkg to compile its node project into a single binary. Unfortunately, pkg produces binaries that fails to sign in strict mode: https://github.com/vercel/pkg/issues/128

This ticket is usefull in that it is still open 😅 but also references alternatives to pkg:

• nexe has similar issue https://github.com/nexe/nexe/issues/446
• http://enclosejs.com/ doesn't even install (403)
• node-packer is reported to sign OK but I had difficulties compiling it this way and the binary it produces is signable but not working.
• node-packer fork binaries are hosted in a dead website

Our best option is obviously to replace etcher-cli dependency but there's no alternative in sight. We could rely on dd on macOS if we'd prefer to have notarization sooner than later.

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[kelson42]

Unfortunately this product has been discontinued. Therefore this issue won't be fixed/implemented. A bit more details can be found here.