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I am one of the Mac users of novelwriter, I use it frequently. Very good software. |
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Perhaps it would make sense to provide it only as a brew cask for macOS? Keeps it free from needing to package but lowers the barrier slightly. |
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Good morning. I use MacOS and it seems that software such as NovelWriter could be right for me. I agree with installing from a *.WHL package, leaving the DMG aside. However, when I try to install (pip3 install *.whl), I get the following error: Error: Externally-Managed-Environment. What should I do? Thank you. |
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That is indeed a very sad news, I use mac version, and picket it up due to easy sync between linux and mac. |
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I intend to stop providing DMG images for MacOS from 2.9 and on. There are several reasons for this, but the main one is maintainability as I have no way of testing that the images work (the 2.8 pre-release images were broken, and I only noticed by chance). The second reason is that the releases are not signed, so installing them is getting increasingly difficult due to Apple's extremely poor support or open source projects. Finally, I'm not sure there are that many MacOS users of novelWriter. I don't track usage in any way, so I can't really tell, but I almost never hear from users on Mac.
novelWriter can still be run on MacOS, and I will keep testing it and supporting the platform in the code. So anyone with a Python installation on MacOS will be able to run the PyPi package also on Mac. It's a very technical solution, but the DMG image also requires some technical skill to bypass the blockers, so not sure that makes much of a difference.
You can find the PyPi install instructions here: https://novelwriter.io/download/install_pypi.html
Apple is not likely to get less open source hostile in the future, so I don't really see a solution here. Similar issues on Windows were solved by a sponsor who came in an provided the necessary signing service, but on Windows it's at least possible to spin up a VM to test things. This is another thing Apple actively works to prevent.
For Apple releases to return, I think someone will need to pick up and handle those releases. Brew may be an option here too, but I won't be maintaining it.
Unless someone picks this up and takes over MacOS releases, the 2.8 release cycle will be the last to provide them. I will leave a guide for Mac users on the website, but no longer publish DMGs.
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