Chris, A few fink folks have been testing fink on the developer seed of 10.8, and nobody has reported problems related to Gatekeeper, to the best of my knowledge.
-- Dave On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Chris Schram wrote: > In article <a96bfc8f-eae7-41c4-ac71-432d072a3...@gmail.com>, > Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> If the previously available Mac apps ever come back, how well would they >>>>> get along with Gatekeeper? >>>> >>>> I've no idea what that is. >>>> >>> New security feature of Mountain Lion. New apps must be 'signed' with a >>> valid Apple developer ID. It probably has no relevance to the X11 >>> environment, but I'm guessing the App environment would be problematic. >> >> There's not much we can do about Gatekeeper I'm afraid. That's kind of >> outside the scope of an open source project. Since users have to build the >> apps themselves from source, each user would need to get a developer ID and >> sign it themselves. If users want to use such apps they'll just have to >> allow >> the use of unsigned apps. That's one of the Gatekeeper options. That defeats >> the whole purpose of Gatekeeper of course, but it's just fundamentally >> incompatible with open source software. > > Am I overreacting, or will Gatekeeper effectively put and end to > open-source software on the Mac platform? (Yeah, I know you can disable > it, but most users won't bother.) > > -- > chrisp...@frontier.com is a filtered spam magnet. Email replies WILL be lost. > Try <http://public.xdi.org/=chris.schram> instead. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
