Need notarization in macOS Catalina

[onmyway133]

When running protoc in macOS Catalina, I get macOS cannot verify the developer of “protoc”. I think this executable needs to be notarized

[thomasvl]

This is likely from the download getting tagged by the OS/browser - so you can probably just strip off the attribute via: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine path/to/protoc.

(or download source and build protoc to avoid it getting quarantine)

[alexjpwalker]

Although the hack listed by @thomasvl does allow protoc to run, it's not good practice to bypass Apple's code checking.

Are there plans to set up notarization of the protoc executable built for Mac?

[deannagarcia]

We are aware of this issue and are working to fix it but unfortunately it's requiring more work than we hoped to properly get certification. Closing this bug since it's similar to #9397 and will update progress there.