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Have you tried opening your app on a Mac? macOS literally suggests you move it to the trash.

Yeah, it's not signed at the moment. And fair that that's an extra platform-specific step.

Since my audience is developers and this is an early project I'm ok with them having to do the usual right-click Open and Open Anyway flow.

I feel it's a bit disingenuous to tell people how easy packaging Electron apps is when you skip the hard parts.

You can distribute native macOS apps that aren't signed too.

It's a step everyone needs to do regardless of electron or native.

So I don't think there's anything disingenuous here.

You said that you don't need platform specific code, but it turns out that's because you just skip the platform specific stuff, resulting in a product that I would not consider ready to ship.

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