Re: [XBoard-devel] info/man.command stopped by gatekeeper

[Joshua Pettus]

It looks as if my patch looses its file format,  I should have zipped it..

Sorry!
Josh

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> On Nov 4, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I should have said, Gatekeeper blocks Applications and scripts, the chess 
> engines are fine apparently.
> 
>> On Nov 4, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Everyone,
>> 
>> As had explained before,  OSX’s terminal app couldn’t take arguments from 
>> the command line.  So to counter that, I came up with the solution of using 
>> the OS’s feature of automatically opening terminal when opening a .command 
>> script.  This was in order to pass the arguments to load the man/info pages.
>> 
>> There is one major flaw to this though.  Gatekeeper by default blocks 
>> executables not codesigned until the user gives the go ahead.  Apparently 
>> .command scripts count. :-(  Normally this is done by right clicking on the 
>> executable, selecting open, and press open in the popup dialog (only needs 
>> to be done once).  But in the case of xboard launching those scripts, the 
>> user doesn’t have that option. So they have to go into system preferences 
>> and allow the last item blocked, or disable gatekeeper.  Hardly an Ideal 
>> situation.
>> 
>> The other option of telling the terminal app to run a shellscript is through 
>> applescript, which until now I didn’t believe could be put into our source.  
>> Thankfully I came across a very useful shell command called osascript that 
>> does this, and the multiple lines, typical of applescript, could be put into 
>> one line with -e between commands.
>> 
>> As such I removed the launching scripts and put applescript into manproc and 
>> infoproc to do the job. I fear this meant I had to move infoproc to 
>> gtk/xboard.c (and xaw/xboard.c) in order to take advantage of the dataDir 
>> function in place.  (Thanks Harm, you are teaching me well XD.)
>> 
>> Here is a patch file making all the changes plus modifying our app build 
>> script.
>> 
>> <xboard.patch>
>> 
>> I think i should put out a xboard 4.8.0c with these changes, if you all 
>> agree with them.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Josh
>

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