Am 03.03.2026 um 15:05 schrieb Pavel Sanda <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 01:29:27PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users > wrote: >> Le 03/03/2026 ?? 13:06, Pavel Sanda via lyx-users a écrit : >>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 06:16:33PM +0200, Eberhard W Lisse via lyx-users >>> wrote: >>>> I get this warning when installing (upgrading) LyX via Homebrew: >>>> >>>> Warning: lyx has been deprecated because it does not pass the macOS >>>> Gatekeeper check! It will be disabled on 2026-09-01. >>>> >>>> Not that it bothers me, nor that I even understand this, but I thought I >>>> report it. M4 MacBookAir 26.3. >>> >>> Real problem which we did not agree how to fix yet. >>> >>> IIRC the solutions seen: >>> 1) someone creates homebrew formula to build mac binaries from source. >>> 2) pay ransom to Apple to "certify" our package. >>> 3) ask some other dev from TeX-osphere with existing account to sign for us. >>> >>> Option 2 is probably easiset and most generic but also most morally >>> doubtful. >> >> And option 1 is the "correct" solution, isn't it? > > Well, it would mean that anyone who wants lyx on mac has to install homebrew > first. > Some people might not like to install whole package manager just to get lyx. > > The upside might be that at the end Stephan does not need to prepare binaries > anymore and the whole build process becomes automatized and transparent > (little bit like in gentoo linux, where you prepare only build scripts and not > binary packages, debian is slowly getting there via git/salsa based pipeline). > > How difficult is to built this on mac with all dependencies in place > only Stephan knows (e.g. do we need/insert specific libraries etc like for > windows?). > > The transparency and decreasing the bus factor is probably what I like most on > the solution 1.
But there is nothing wrong with having both homebrew formula and manual releases. On one of my systems I have homebrew installed. But I never tried to understand the concepts and details. Stephan -- lyx-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
