Re: [sage-support] "SageMath is damaged and can't be opened" on macOS 10.14

['Justin C. Walker' via sage-support]

> On Jan 10, 2020, at 09:18 , kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, January 10, 2020 at 3:18:17 AM UTC-5, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 8:01 AM Szabolcs Horvát <szhor...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > I just installed the app version of SageMath 9.0 on macOS 10.14. When I try 
> > to launch it, I get "SageMath is damaged and can't be opened." Version 8.9 
> > worked fine on the same macOS version. 
> > 
> > Do others have this problem too? It would be surprising to me if this were 
> > a universal problem, as it would have certainly been noticed before 
> > publishing the distribution ... 
> > 
> > Is there a workaround? 
> 
> don't use the app version. Use a "normal" terminal version. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is SageMath struggling with getting enough developer resources? Recently 
> > one has to go through more and more hoops to be able to use it ... it's no 
> > longer possible to just download a binary and start it like any normal app. 
> > The last few versions already took minutes to start on macOS unless they 
> > were launched manually from the command line. 
> 
> Apple keeps introducing new security features that are supposed to 
> make MacOS "safer" :-) 
> 
> We don't have any active developers who are experts in MacOS specifics. 
> And no paid engineers to look into this sort of unpleasant stuff, 
> since the end of OpenDreamKit grant few months ago. 
> 
> I think the app version must be pulled, I have been saying this for some 
> time. 
> 
> Which app version was used?   I just tested the one I built on my own 
> computer and I was able to get it going.  However, that is OS X 10.11 - I 
> don't have access to the newer versions.

FWIW, I am running the Sage 9.0 app on macOS 10.13.6 (it appears to have been 
built for 10.11, according to the name).

I will be trying later versions of the app on 10.13.6, 10.14.6 and (I think) 
10.15.x later today or this weekend.

Justin

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