On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Francis E Reyes
<francis.re...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> The problem is not developers ensuring their identities by signing their
> apps. It's that there's now a (small) barrier for the end user in installing
> unsigned apps.
>
> The implementation has yet to be seen, but will getting around this barrier
> simply be a pop up ("press OK if you really trust this software", the
> implementation most people are familiar with but largely ineffective IMHO),
> or will the INSTALL file include OS X specific directives to circumvent the
> walled garden? ("OS X users must CTRL-Click to install this application").
I'm sure anyone smart and adventurous enough to take on X-ray
crystallography can figure out how to do this. More realistically,
it'll just mean that we'll see at least one question a month on ccp4bb
asking what to do when installation of <program X> doesn't immediately
work. Labs that are members of SBGrid won't even notice the change.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I think the probability of
crystallography software developers going the App Store route is
nearly zero.
-Nat
