Re: [Python-Dev] Mac popups running make test

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Carol Willing < willingc@willingconsulting.com> wrote:

On 5/10/15 10:29 AM, Tal Einat wrote:

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:

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On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:04 AM Skip Montanaro wrote:

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I haven't run the test suite in awhile. I am in the midst of running it on my Mac running Yosemite 10.10.3. Twice now, I've gotten this popup:

​ I assume this is testing some server listening on localhost. Is this a new thing, either with the Python test suite or with Mac OS X? (I'd normally be hidden behind a NAT firewall, but at the moment I am on a miserable public connection in a Peet's Coffee, so it takes on slightly more importance...)

It's not new.

Indeed, I've run into this as well.

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I've also seen the Crash Reporter pop up many times, but as far as I could tell, in all cases the test suite output told me it was expected. Perhaps tests which listen for network connections should also mention that, at least on Macs?

Wouldn't hurt. Just requires tracking down which test(s) triggers it (might be more than one and I don't know if answering that popup applies for the rest of the test execution or once per test if you use -j).

If anyone starts working on this, let me know if I can help, e.g. trying things on my own Mac.

I believe that the message has to do with OS X's sandboxing implementation and the setting of the sandbox's entitlement keys. Here's an Apple doc: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Miscellaneous/Referenc...

I'm unaware of a way to work around this other than using Apple's code signing or adjusting target build settings in XCode :( If anyone knows a good way to workaround or manually set permission (other than clicking the Allow button), I would be interested.

I was reading about this a few weeks ago an recall finding a way to ad-hoc sign the built python executable. Here's a link below. I haven't tried this, though, and don't know if it would work with a python executable rather than a proper OSX app. If it does work, it would be useful to add this as a tool and/or mention it in the developer docs. http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/121010 - Tal Einat