[Gretl-devel] Re: macOS security

> 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.