On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nope the whole thing is a standalone, everything is included in the ".app" > folder, I use no external image or sources . Is just the typical mac app > which is a folder masquerading as a single application executable. > > This is not the first time, in the past also some people reported this > problem, I also tested it and experienced no such problem. I am still > curious why I do not have it and some of you do. > Do you have any problem with Pharo opening a text file in the /tmp directory? cheers -ben > > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 11:31 AM Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The whole “path randomisation” feature of macOS is very odd.. what they >> do is to set an extended >> attribute to enable tranlocation (copy the whole app to a random path, >> start it there). >> >> This seems to be enabled when you look at a mounted .dmg file *and* when >> you uncompress a .zip. >> >> The flag is removed by the finder when copying to /Applications. >> >> When you use a signed .dmg, the flag is turned off. When you start via >> command line, the flag is ignored. >> >> (this is my understanding of the whole mess). >> >> But it might be that it depends, too, which which program you uncompress >> the .zip... >> >> you can check from the command line: >> >> security translocate-policy-check Pharo.app/ >> Would not translocate >> >> This whole mechanism is only a problem when the applications tries to >> access files with a non-relative path. >> That means that the packaged download where the sources and image are >> inside the .app has a problem, >> if you use the VM standalone with .image, sources and .changes, it should >> not be a problem, I think. >> >> >> > On 8 Jun 2017, at 10:05, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I have latest macos sierra , dowload , opened and saved image for both >> pharo 6 (32 and 64 bit) and I see no problem doing that from the dowload >> folder without moving the apps to the Application folder. Am I missing >> something here ? Because when I dowloaded them there was a warning dialog >> that said that this would not work. >> >> >>
