Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012 um 02:41 schrieb Rob Weir: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Keith N. McKenna > <[email protected]> wrote: > > With the release of OSX Mountain Lion and its new Gatekeeper feature I > > wanted to ask if any thought had been given by the community of applying to > > Apple for a Developer ID. My limited understanding is that by signing the > > installation files with the Developer ID it automatically unlocks the > > gatekeeper and allows the application to run. Otherwise there is a short > > process that one must go through to change the security settings for the > > application allowing it to open. > > > > > We'd like to do code signing, not only for Mac but for Windows as > well. Signed installers are the new normal and are expected by > browser, anti-virus scanners and increasingly by operating systems. > > Although we have volunteers willing to do the build integration work, > and funds available for acquiring certificates, we've been told that > individual Apache projects may not do their own signing. The Apache > Infrastructure team is trying to figure out some way that this can be > done centrally. But no estimate for when this will happen. > exactly and at the moment we can only wait, I have no idea how we can help further at the moment. Any ideas are welcome.
In the meantime we should add a note about the new Gatekeeper of Mountain Lion. It's a one time ctrl-click or opening via the context menu. After that you can run it as normal without any further dialog from the system. I tried it out and forget to take screenshot to document it. Juergen > > Regards, > > -Rob > > > Based on a question in the user mailing list I am adding a link to the > > Release Notes in the known problems section on how to make the required > > change. > > > > Regards > > Keith > > > > >
