On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Markus Spoettl wrote: > On 3/22/12 7:38 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote: >> As a guy who HATES WITH A BURNING PASSION the bouncy elastic >> NSScrollViews and sudden app termination when they are on my >> computer's OS, I'd like to ask a few questions in the hopes of >> minimizing this atrocity against mankind (for me) when/if I have to >> switch to Lion. >> >> As far as I can tell in Lion codesigned apps, you can't open up the >> guys of the app and change ANYTHING, even if it's in a pList file >> within the app. >> >> IIRC, Codesigning prevents any modification of any codesigned app's >> internals on Lion. >> >> Am I correct in this assumption? > > No. It depends on whether the app or the system check if its signature is > valid. If neither cares, nothing will happen.
OK. I just went over to a fresh Mac running Lion, duplicated TextEdit, edited the info.plist inside the app, added a space, saved it and tried to launch the app. It immediately quit due to a codesigning error. This tells me that codesigned apps can't be modified at all. If you are right and I am wrong, Is there a project setting in Xcode that allows us to control this? Or some other flag somewhere? > > I'm using Xcode with a switched-out GIT IDE plugin so that I can get rid of > the GIT integration. Xcode is code signed, but doesn't seem to mind me > rearranging it's bowels. > OK, so that tells me that you answer is the right one. But still, something is preventing a codesigned app from being edited. Hmmm. - Alex Zavatone _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
