Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor

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mosburger ◴[20 Aug 24 12:29 UTC] No.41299442[source]▶

Is anyone else getting a "“Pragtical.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash" error when attempting to run the arm64 build on macOS? Really wanted to try it out!

I suppose it could just be some security crap Corp IT installed on my laptop preventing it from installing.

It looks like it's only taking up 7.9MB in my Applications folder so it must be corrupt or something.

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tunaoftheland ◴[20 Aug 24 13:00 UTC] No.41299668[source]▶

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Haven't tried with Pragtical (hard to say it out loud BTW, lol) but have had success with right-click-opening other apps that give this error. Sometimes I need to do it multiple times to open it as normal. No issues with the apps themselves, has to do with app signing (or lack thereof for many macOS apps that one just downloads from a site).

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1. tom_ ◴[20 Aug 24 13:20 UTC] No.41299808[source]▶

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An error about the app being damaged specifically can stem from the contents of the .app folder being modified after it was signed with the codesign tool. You can use codesign --verify (consult the man page) to get some info about why it's being considered damaged.

I've got this wrong in the past by adding the README too late in the process. Once I'd fixed that, the reason macOS gives for not opening my app became that Apple can't check it for malicious software. Much better... I think? The right click/open workaround does work.

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