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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To be more explicit, for ngspice for #2) how do we move the
Contents/Plugins/sim/ngspice directory to Contents/Resources/ngspice
*and* get ngspice to know where it is?

On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 7:00 PM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> Apple is changing how the lack of notarization looks like to users on
> Catalina starting tomorrow.  It is not clear what will happen when
> folks download new versions of KiCad after tonight.
>
> For the past two months I've been working hard--I've got a tech demo
> locally here that has signatures and notarization on macOS, but it's
> not ready for primetime.  For instance, I have removed the other .apps
> and just have kicad.app.  There's changes I made to kicad that
> probably belong in kicad-mac-builder--and, well, let's just say it's a
> tech demo :)
>
> The main things that remain are:
> 1) Figure out a good solution for the symlinked .apps.  Our current
> strategy of symlinking into the kicad.app bundle does not work with
> macOS signing.  I think the current contender is to copy instead of
> symlink.  I am not sure how much extra space that will take up but
> it's a good try.  This is definitely something I can do, but since
> it's something that can be done on its own, it's a prime contender for
> someone looking to help out.
>
> 2) Another issue is that there are strict rules about where in the
> bundle code, data, and executable non-Mach-O files live.  For
> instance, one of the signing blockers is ngspice, because it mingles
> scripts and Mach-O binaries and then we put them in Contents/Plugins.
> For more details, see
> https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2206/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40007919-CH1-TNTAG201.
> The big change for KiCad itself is where the Python scripts are
> stored--I've fixed this in my branch, but now I have to go through and
> audit and fixup our partner packages, like OCE/OCC and ngspice.  If
> you want to help with this, it's going to be a big job but I'm willing
> to put in the time to teach if you're willing to put in the time to
> learn :)
>
> I was really hoping I could get this done before Apple turned up the
> enforcement on notarization, but that's going to happen.  After
> tomorrow, it'll be clearer what Apple is doing.  There might be some
> quick changes to make that will improve things for our users without
> getting all of this done.
>
> Adam Wolf