starting with build `0.3.0-build148` we support signing and notarization of macOS DMG packages in Gr...

# compose-desktop

[olonho]

starting with build 0.3.0-build148 we support signing and notarization of macOS DMG packages in Gradle plugin out of the box. See https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/tutorials/Signing_and_notarization_on_macOS. Please let us know how it works for you, and if documentation needs clarification or improvements.

[suresh]

AppImage target format used to create .app files on Mac. With this update, it started throwing the following error

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unexpected target format for MacOS: AppImage
        at org.jetbrains.compose.desktop.application.internal.ConfigureApplicationKt.configurePackagingTasks(configureApplication.kt:78)
        at org.jetbrains.compose.desktop.application.internal.ConfigureApplicationKt.configureApplicationImpl(configureApplication.kt:30)
        at org.jetbrains.compose.ComposePlugin$apply$2.execute(ComposePlugin.kt:36)
        at org.jetbrains.compose.ComposePlugin$apply$2.execute(ComposePlugin.kt:17)

[suresh]

@Igor Demin Is AppImage supported on mac now?

[Colton Idle]

@olonho just to confirm. This means I'm going to need to pay a 100 annual fee right? No way around it? Just asking because I know you can deploy/sign ios apps without paying 100 for an apple dev account

[olonho]

That’s better be asked at Apple forums, I personally paid that fee.

[Colton Idle]

@olonho thanks. will reach out to some apple forums.

[alexey.tsvetkov]

@suresh the AppImage was not documented, so it was considered no one would use it as a targetFormats argument. The problem with it is that the name is too generic and confusing, and its not really a packaging format. In reality AppImage was meant to create a prepackaged app on any platform (.app is not a file format on Mac; it is just a directory containing executables & libraries).
In order to avoid confusion around TargetFormat.AppImage, the value was prohibited to be used as an argument of targetFormats. Instead, there are always two tasks available: createDistributable and runDistributable to create and run a prepackaged app. I will clarify the error message to reflect that.