To be more explicit, for ngspice for #2) how do we move the Contents/Plugins/sim/ngspice directory to Contents/Resources/ngspice *and* get ngspice to know where it is?
On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 7:00 PM Adam Wolf <adamw...@feelslikeburning.com> wrote: > > Hi folks! > > Apple is changing how the lack of notarization looks like to users on > Catalina starting tomorrow. It is not clear what will happen when > folks download new versions of KiCad after tonight. > > For the past two months I've been working hard--I've got a tech demo > locally here that has signatures and notarization on macOS, but it's > not ready for primetime. For instance, I have removed the other .apps > and just have kicad.app. There's changes I made to kicad that > probably belong in kicad-mac-builder--and, well, let's just say it's a > tech demo :) > > The main things that remain are: > 1) Figure out a good solution for the symlinked .apps. Our current > strategy of symlinking into the kicad.app bundle does not work with > macOS signing. I think the current contender is to copy instead of > symlink. I am not sure how much extra space that will take up but > it's a good try. This is definitely something I can do, but since > it's something that can be done on its own, it's a prime contender for > someone looking to help out. > > 2) Another issue is that there are strict rules about where in the > bundle code, data, and executable non-Mach-O files live. For > instance, one of the signing blockers is ngspice, because it mingles > scripts and Mach-O binaries and then we put them in Contents/Plugins. > For more details, see > https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2206/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40007919-CH1-TNTAG201. > The big change for KiCad itself is where the Python scripts are > stored--I've fixed this in my branch, but now I have to go through and > audit and fixup our partner packages, like OCE/OCC and ngspice. If > you want to help with this, it's going to be a big job but I'm willing > to put in the time to teach if you're willing to put in the time to > learn :) > > I was really hoping I could get this done before Apple turned up the > enforcement on notarization, but that's going to happen. After > tomorrow, it'll be clearer what Apple is doing. There might be some > quick changes to make that will improve things for our users without > getting all of this done. > > Adam Wolf _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
