altool 4.0
Xcode 11.0b3 includes a major update to
altool(used for notarization),altool4.0, with some awesome new features.[…]
First,
altoolactually has a man page now (man altool) accessible after new Xcode 11b3 is installed.altool supports a new
--verboseargument that’s my type of verbose (it’s overly verbose to the MAX!) that’s useful in debugging issues, filing radars, and watching progress.[…]
Another new argument (as seen in the previous screenshot) is the
--transportargument that allows you to specify the upload method orderaltool/Transporter tries.[…]
The
DAV(WebDAV) method is extremely slow but explicitly specifying it will preventaltoolfrom attempting the other transport methods doomed to fail if UDP is blocked.[…]
altool4.0 now supports concurrent uploads from the same host. You no longer have to wait for a submission to return a RequestUUID before starting another submission in a new Terminal window.A lot of third-party developers were having issues creating a keychain item for use with
-p "@keychain:<Keychain Item>"soaltool4.0 has a new convenience command,--store-password-in-keychain-item <New Item Name>, that will create it in the iCloud Keychain for you!
These sound like great improvements.
Previously:
- Notarizing Command-Line Tools for macOS 10.15
- Security & Privacy in macOS 10.15 Beta
- macOS 10.14.5 Requires New Developers to Notarize
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Frankly, I'd rather they spend some effort improving the performance of the backend - having to wait around two minutes to get a notarised build back so I can test a build on another Mac or send it to someone is tedious. It means I've had to add a “skip notarising” flag to my build script for when I just want to test it on another Mac - and that only works as long as notarising doesn't become mandatory.
@Peter Faster performance would be nice. I use rsync or Screen Sharing to copy builds to test Macs, both of which bypass Gatekeeper and therefore notarization requirements.
