[Gretl-devel] Re: macOS security

On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Berend Hasselman wrote: >> On 30 Dec 2019, at 00:59, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: >> >> On Thu, 26 Dec 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote: >> >> But I hadn't properly taken on board Berend's comments about the >> "notarization" of one's code by Apple. I've now read up on that and I see >> it's going to be a big problem. So far as I've been able to determine, at >> this point there are no open-source cross-platform tools to accomplish >> this: it has to be done via Xcode. [...] > > It might be quite possible to get gretl installed even if the security > requirements of Apple are not met (in full). R for the Mac also seems to > run into problems on macOS Catalina. But there appear to be ways pf getting > around the "silliness". > > Discussions can be found in these threads on the R=SIG-Mac mailing lists: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2019-September/013074.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2019-October/013098.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2019-December/013139.html > > There may be a commandline method of getting around the problems. Or even > just Ctrl-click a .pkg installer file. > > The R people are working on trying to get R-4.0.0 to install without > warnings or objections. > > The best thing to do currently is wait and see what happens and what the R > people can come up with. Thanks, Berend, that sounds like a good policy.