[CWB] CWB on OS Catalina

[Stefan Evert]

> On 12 Jun 2020, at 11:35, Susanne Flach <susanne.flach at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> What’s worse — Catalina blocks command-line apps for every restart, i.e., the solution that Simon describes is frustratingly shortlived. This must have come in with a minor version of Catalina (possibly from 10.15.3 to 10.15.4), where “allow anywhere” is not available any more. I’ve been experiencing this for a few weeks now. Ironically, with Catalina, system restarts are necessary so much more often than before. I agree with Stefan, Apple is going downhill fast.

I'm on 10.15.5 and haven't run into this problem yet (and have gotten used to right-click-opening apps from unidentified developers), but I'm not sure I have installed pre-compiled command-line tools that aren't properly instrumented.  I compile a lot of stuff myself, and get most other command-line components via HomeBrew – their bottled distributions seem to be set up properly to work with gatekeeper.

But I also can e.g. run the tree-tagger binary without any problems after a reboot, so I'd like to understand what exactly is going on and provide better guidance to CWB users unfortunate enough to work on MacOS.  One possible issue is that I had already installed tree-tagger before the upgrade to Catalina – perhaps there are special exemptions for existing apps?

Best,
Stefan