Oolite Bulletins

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 10:39 pm

hiran wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 8:47 pm

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 3:11 pm

Will you be adding any of this collateral information to the Oolite Starter GUI for the saved games?

I thought this has happened already. Unless the savegames cannot be read by XML parsers.

Sorry! I failed to open 0.1.6 - and when I tried again earlier with 0.1.3 I failed again! We dumb pilots....

hiran wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:57 am

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 10:39 pm

hiran wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 8:47 pm

I thought this has happened already. Unless the savegames cannot be read by XML parsers.

Sorry! I failed to open 0.1.6 - and when I tried again earlier with 0.1.3 I failed again! We dumb pilots....

I acknowledge that usability to non developers is low and thus whatever I implemented is of little value. My next modifications will focus on that.

hiran wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:36 pm

Thank you for the credit.
Still I'd like to make tools that are easily accessible.

I spent some time thinking about python but java seems more advanced as it includes gui and packaging across platforms that I do not yet see elsewhere.

Cholmondely, we should investigate how exactly you failed to run the starter.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:44 pm

hiran wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:36 pm

Thank you for the credit.
Still I'd like to make tools that are easily accessible.

I spent some time thinking about python but java seems more advanced as it includes gui and packaging across platforms that I do not yet see elsewhere.

Cholmondely, we should investigate how exactly you failed to run the starter.

Heh! This dumb pilots fails running anything - except away from the pirates!

hiran wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 6:57 pm

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 5:40 pm

Just downloaded the latest. When I clicked on the .dmg I got this:

"OoliteStarter" is damaged and can't be opened. You should eject the disk image.

This item is on the disk image “OoliteStarter-1.0.dmg”. Waterfox downloaded this disk image today at 17:37 from github.com.

When I clicked on the ? icon I got this:

The app has been modified or damaged

The app has been modified, and its code does not match the original signed code. The app may be broken or corrupted, or it may have been tampered with. If you think that an app has been damaged or tampered with, you should delete it by dragging it to the Trash.

Some apps and tools, such as AppleScript or JavaScript applications and some legacy tools, modify themselves after signing. These types of apps cannot be opened unless you override the security settings on your Mac. See Open an app by overriding security settings.

To learn how to protect your Mac from harmful software, see Protect your Mac from malware.

See also
Change Security & Privacy General preferences on Mac

Console gave me this under the "System Log" heading:

Jun 6 18:43:37 ....-MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x1000002c.OoliteStarter[28313]): removing service since it exited with consistent failure - OS_REASON_EXEC | Gatekeeper policy blocked execution

I also tried launching it with the control key held down (needed to open alien programmes) with identical results.

That is unusable. A serious issue.
Yet it sounds to me as if something small is missing. Such as a digital signature. We will have to fiddle around together.

-mac-signing-key-user-name user_or_team_name: The key user or team name, which is the name portion in Apple signing identities' names.

arquebus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:12 pm

hiran wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:00 pm

Interesting. What is special about these OXPs?
So far I could only make out they are not on the Expansion Manager.

Yeah they are all exactly the versions found on the wiki; I didn't change anything. And the Contextual Jukebox is mine, and I barely know what I'm doing, so I'm surprised it shows up when the others don't.

For example I downloaded Furball from here: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Furball_OXP

another_commander wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 8:26 am

Code signing certificates are not provided for free. The keys you are looking for are most likely handed out after the vetting process by the Certification Authority (Apple in this case, I guess) has been completed. This process is always charged as far as I am aware and requires proof of identity , i.e. legal documents demonstrating that you are who you claim to be. Are you willing to go through such a process to obtain a code signing certificate?

hiran wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 8:56 am

But AFAIK Oolite is distributed as DMG for the Apple Mac. How does that work? Is that build getting signed?

another_commander wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 9:16 am

hiran wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 8:56 am

But AFAIK Oolite is distributed as DMG for the Apple Mac. How does that work? Is that build getting signed?

As far as I can tell, no, it is not signed. Requiring code signatures for every app out there would seem rather draconian to me, even for Apple. Maybe it is only some app types (Java apps included probably) that require signing? Can't be sure without looking into Apple's app distribution guidelines in more detail.