macOS security warning when trying to open the app

[Pageboy]

On Mac OSX Catalina 0.6.5 needs permission to be run. A message similar to:
App can’t be opened because Apple can’t check it for malicious software is seen. Only administrators of the Mac can allow the app to run.

[mb21]

ah, maybe the $100/year apple developer certificate I used has expired or something...

Meanwhile, you should be able to "right-click -> open" on the app, then confirm again in the dialog. You only have to do that once.

[Pageboy]

Thanks. Unfortunately my students don't have admin rights and I ask then to install in their user Applications folder.
Great app though. Really friendly way to use pandoc

[mb21]

ah, apparently I now also need to "notarize" the app, which xcrun stapler validate /Applications/PanWriter.app shows I didn't do.

Meanwhile, PanWriter release 0.6.3 still seems to work.

[niebert]

Again for panwriter on MacOSX BigSur the same message appears as Chris mentioned above if students install that on a MacOSX with BigSur on it.

Apple is not able to check panwriter for malicious software

Similar things happend to OpenSource Computer Algebra System Maxima if students install that Maxima CAS on BigSur in Mathematics courses. Anyway panwriter is a great tool and as OpenSource software at least a computer scientist could check with your transparent developing history on GitHub if you included malicicous software into your panwriter application. Furthermore the dependabot would show potential vulverabilities also in any fork. Thank you for sharing your tool panwriter. It is a much better software design than my rapid protoype attempts with PanDocElectron. best regards, Bert

[fsamland]

Hello I tried to use panwriter and run in the same issue as nibert and chris before on macOS BigSur.
As I'am not an administrator i #am not able to allow the execution of not certified apps.
Can you do the notarization for 8.1.0 as well?
Best regards
Friedbert

[AX-LLaidley]

I'm getting this error on Monterey, and can't run the app. Can we get an ETA on a resolution?

[OktarinTentakel]

Same here. I'd really love to check out the app, but this is a company device. So, no dice for me this way.

[mb21]

In macOS Sequoia you even have to:

First, try to launch the app and dismiss the dialog box telling you that it can't be opened. Then, open Settings, go to the Privacy & Security screen, scroll all the way to the bottom to get to the Security section, and click the Open Anyway button that appears for the last unsigned app you tried to run.

Or alternatively run:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/PanWriter.app

Maybe the time has come to shell out the $100/y to Apple, although I somehow really dislike doing that, considering I'm volunteering my free time for PanWriter already. Call me irrational or petty, but it feels bad. Would people be willing to donate a few bucks to pay for this and the domain if I set up a GitHub Sponsor thing?