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Mac OS X GateKeeper Blocks Executable Jars #2

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wnbittle opened this issue Mar 14, 2015 · 3 comments
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Mac OS X GateKeeper Blocks Executable Jars #2

wnbittle opened this issue Mar 14, 2015 · 3 comments

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

  1. Download the .zip version of Praisenter
  2. Extract the archive
  3. Attempt to run either the Launcher.jar or Praisenter.jar
  4. You will either see nothing or you will see the GateKeeper message come up saying that its insecure.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
You should see the Praisenter run as normal. However, GateKeeper adds a new layer of portability issues with Mac OS X.

The real fix for this is to use a .app deployment method rather than the .zip or .jnlp. This would fix a lot of the deployment related platform notes and make it much easier for users to download/use.

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Ubuntu Linux has a similar scheme for application deployment that we should look into at the same time as this.

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This has been mostly solved by the download page text for the various systems. For the most part the Webstart version is sufficient. If the project takes off and there is enough demand we may investigate this more.

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Closing in favor of jpackage and the signing efforts to come later

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