Sentinel.app Gatekeeper control, unquarantine apps and more.

[OpenXTalkPaul]

Quite useful tool, and the app itself is code signed/notarized with the dev's Apple Account so that's good.
Gatekeeper control, unquarantine apps and more.

https://github.com/alienator88/Sentinel

[tperry2x]

That's great and everything, but you need MacOS 12 - so great for them. Not great for me & others still rattling along on an older MacOS. I do want to keep supporting as far back as MacOS 10.9 (because I'm sure there are plenty of macs out there that developer tools have forgotten now - so I want to provide a method for them to still be used and allow people to be able to create things with OXT Lite on them). - rather than these macs just going to landfill.

[OpenXTalkPaul]

That's great and everything, but you need MacOS 12 - so great for them. Not great for me & others still rattling along on an older MacOS. I do want to keep supporting as far back as MacOS 10.9 (because I'm sure there are plenty of macs out there that developer tools have forgotten now - so I want to provide a method for them to still be used and allow people to be able to create things with OXT Lite on them). - rather than these macs just going to landfill.

I didn't test it on earlier macOS. I have similar apps that runs on macOS 11, not sure about older.

if you're running on older versions macOS then gatekeeper / code-signing etc. should not be as much of an issue as it is on newer versions of macOS. But anyway I'm guessing there were similar utilities available for earlier macOS versions.

As someone who still keeps a dual boot macOS 9 / macOS 10.5.9 (community mod) PowerPC Mac around waiting to be used (right next to my 1986 Mac512KE), I'm all for supporting vintage Macs. And I would like to continue to support as far back as the engine can (for 9.x that is macOS 10.9). OXT can run on a whopping 10 major versions of macOS, so far! The only problem with that is there's a lot more things newer versions of the OS can do that previous versions could not, and the reverse too because of Apple deprecations. 'Metal' window style is one example.