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#HOW TO GET MAC OS DMG WITHOUT APP STORE CODE#

I played with this a bit a couple of weeks ago. Eventually, I believe we should migrate completely to sysex on macOS.

#HOW TO GET MAC OS DMG WITHOUT APP STORE CODE#

However, it is worth maintaining a minimal sysex variant of our app today for the sole reason of letting users beta test our code outside the mac store. New macOS versions roll out a lot slower than iOS, so far only ~55% of macs run Catalina.

The significant downside: this only works on 10.15.

There is formal "replacement" logic in the sysex API that may make store upgrades smoother.

With care, a NetworkExtension sysex can be signed by a Developer ID, meaning it can be deployed outside the (see the comment by eskimo in this thread that mentions app-proxy-provider-systemextension, I've tested this, it works.) This is not possible with an appex.

This means we could use our common protocol from Linux/Windows for talking between the frontend and the sysex. See IPCConnection.swift in the FilteringNetworkTraffic example.

It is accepted by Apple that you can do your own IPC.

(I haven't tested this, but it may get us headless mac mode for Tailscale.)

A System Extension can run when the user is not logged in.

However there are several notable differences that make sysex interesting: The same APIs for invoking the packet tunnel work, so code can be shared.

Since then, there appears to have been a slight shift in Apple's thinking: compatibility is done by Mac Catalyst (think: Android-on-ChromeOS), and for the future of macOS-specific apps Apple have introduced a System Extension variant of the NetworkExtension in macOS 10.15 Catalina.įor the NetworkExtension in particular, the System Extension is very similar to the App Extension. This was then ported to macOS in the name of compatibility, so the exact same appex could run in the Mac Store sandbox. History, as best I've been able to figure it: Apple introduced the NetworkExtension as an App Extension for iOS to make it possible to run background networking code.