Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell development in Mac OS X after Gatekeeper

On 2/19/12, Austin Seipp wrote:

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Tom Murphy wrote:

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0) Distributing non-Cocoa-built apps, even if you're approved by Apple

Do you just mean binaries that you expect users run under /usr/local/bin or something, not app bundles? If that's the case, I cannot say if the same restrictions will apply.

Actually, what I was more concerned about was the ability to distribute a "full" Mac application, with a GUI, made with a method other than calling Haskell from Objective-C. It seems that *none* of these applications will be usable by anyone except users with all security settings turned off (it doesn't sound great in a user manual: "Every time you run this program, be sure to turn the malware-detector all the way off") The reason I'm concerned is that having a security signature requires a membership to the Apple Developers program, which is exclusively for XCode [0]. Isn't it logical to assume that the signature-"bundling" process [1] occurs within XCode? (I'm assuming the "digital summary of the contents of the application" is a hash, which (I think) would imply that XCode-compilation would have to be the final step in the development chain) Which (again, unless I'm reading it wrong) means that most Haskell OS X GUI work (incl. FRP) goes out the window?! amindfv / Tom [0] Not to mention $100 every year! [1] "Digital signatures are created by combining a secret key known only to the developer with a digital summary of the contents of the application. It’s all wrapped together in an encrypted file that becomes part of the app."