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From: Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re: How to deliver and activate apps for MacOS ?
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 07:37:09 +0100
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Am 06.02.25 um 01:20 schrieb abu:
> I recently released several Tcl packages and some full TclTk apps for
> MacOs ( see https://wiki.tcl.tk/Caligraft2025).
> Most of these packages/apps contain some binary libraries (*.dylib) and
> for the first run you are forced to do some non-trivial interactive
> steps to meet some MacOS security checks.
> 
> Is there a method (for a common user) to avoid carrying out all these
> steps manually?

Congratulations, now you know why I've left Apple and went back to Linux 
after 15 years. In order to have the software accepted, it must be 
signed with a certificate, which requires a subscription (used to be 
$99/year). Also in newer versions of macOS, they made it more and more 
cumbersome to enable "sideloading" which is there term for getting 
software without using the App store. So for the "really normal user" 
you would also need to publish it in the App store.

Never done that myself, though.

             Christian