Hi Hilaire,

> Le 11 mars 2019 à 21:27, Hilaire <hila...@drgeo.eu> a écrit :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Today I realized another problem on some Mac OSX. It looks like when you
> download an app on the net, whenever your run it, OS X re-localizes it
> on a read only location. A guess a protection measure. It leads to
> obvious problem.
> 
> For example, once I download DrGeo and run it, the image location
> resolve to this place:
> 
> /private/var/folders/bb/spq6th0s7814jgk9nybbqjrw45hrqn/T/AppTranslocation/D0FEC575-60D6-4F2B-A1C3-3259271B9C92/d/DrGeo.app/Contents/Resources

Maybe (I did not do the original packaging) it is the reason why PharoLauncher 
is delivered as a dmg bundle.
The dmg is first decompressed (in a read only location).
You the have to copy the app to /Applications (or any other location).
Doing that should solve your problems.

Regards,
Christophe

> 
> I don't have the global picture and it is hard to understand what's
> going on.
> 
> Moving to the Application place seems to resolve the issue. But some
> users told me they have to move DrGeo from Download, then Application,
> then back to Download to get it running without RW error.
> 
> What a strange world.
> 
> Guys, what about throwing away these Mac, the promise of freedom[1] is
> longtime twisted :-)
> 
> Ok just kidding, well half-kidding.
> 
> Hilaire
> 
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
> 
> Le 09/03/2019 à 10:10, Cédrick Béler a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I tried a bit more to make DrGeo bundle works.
>> 
>> I have Mojave (10.14) and the problem of corrupted files seems to come from 
>> Gatekeeper with prevent unsigned applications (from unknot developper) to 
>> open.
>> 
>> Gatekeeper can be temporary stopped and then the bundle work, even when 
>> Gatekeeper is reactivated. But clearly, this is not a friendly user way of 
>> installing DrGeo.
>> 
>> So I guess the actual (old ?) bundle procedure doesn’t fit Apple politic on 
>> application security. I'm pretty sure PharoLauncher faced this already.
>> 
>> So my question is:
>> - how to make a signed bundle for OSX ?
>> — do we need a real developer account ? I’ve a free one and access to a paid 
>> one. Can we do it with a general « pharaoh » account like for Pharo-Launcher 
>> ?
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Cédrick
> 
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