Re: [XBoard-devel] info/man.command stopped by gatekeeper

[Joshua Pettus]

I should have said, Gatekeeper blocks Applications and scripts, the chess 
engines are fine apparently.

> On Nov 4, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> As had explained before,  OSX’s terminal app couldn’t take arguments from the 
> command line.  So to counter that, I came up with the solution of using the 
> OS’s feature of automatically opening terminal when opening a .command 
> script.  This was in order to pass the arguments to load the man/info pages.
> 
> There is one major flaw to this though.  Gatekeeper by default blocks 
> executables not codesigned until the user gives the go ahead.  Apparently 
> .command scripts count. :-(  Normally this is done by right clicking on the 
> executable, selecting open, and press open in the popup dialog (only needs to 
> be done once).  But in the case of xboard launching those scripts, the user 
> doesn’t have that option. So they have to go into system preferences and 
> allow the last item blocked, or disable gatekeeper.  Hardly an Ideal 
> situation.
> 
> The other option of telling the terminal app to run a shellscript is through 
> applescript, which until now I didn’t believe could be put into our source.  
> Thankfully I came across a very useful shell command called osascript that 
> does this, and the multiple lines, typical of applescript, could be put into 
> one line with -e between commands.
> 
> As such I removed the launching scripts and put applescript into manproc and 
> infoproc to do the job. I fear this meant I had to move infoproc to 
> gtk/xboard.c (and xaw/xboard.c) in order to take advantage of the dataDir 
> function in place.  (Thanks Harm, you are teaching me well XD.)
> 
> Here is a patch file making all the changes plus modifying our app build 
> script.
> 
> <xboard.patch>
> 
> I think i should put out a xboard 4.8.0c with these changes, if you all agree 
> with them.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Josh

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