Nevis version 1.1.0

Release Notes

  • Add support for opening PKGs, including PKGs inside ZIPs and DMGs
  • Improve detection of downloaded files
  • Ensure app is brought forward when opening from status bar icon
  • Fix handling of DMGs if Nevis is force quit and reopened

Nevis version 1.0.1

Release Notes

  • Improve handling of watch folder
  • Improve notification text when an error occurs

Supporting Multiple Swift Package Versions Without Breaking Compatibility

The Xcode 12 beta includes Swift 5.3 but drops support for iOS 8.x. This means that Swift packages that support iOS 8 will cause a warning:

The iOS deployment target 'IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET' is set to 8.0, but the range of supported deployment target versions is 9.0 to 14.0.99.

It's not possible to remove this warning within a project that depends on a Swift package with a deployment target of iOS 8, but it is possible to fix this in the dependency without removing support for iOS 8 for older versions of Swift. There are multiple way this can be accomplished.

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Running UI Tests on Mac Catalyst

While working on the 2.0 update for Gathered I have been trying to develop the app multiple platforms simultaneously. SwiftUI will solve this problem in the future, but I wish to support some OS versions that SwiftUI does not support.

As part of this I have been creating UI tests to test performance, but ran in to an issue when running the UI tests on macOS using Mac Catalyst:

Running tests...
The bundle “PerformanceXCTests” couldn’t be loaded because it is damaged or missing necessary resources. Try reinstalling the bundle.
(dlopen_preflight(...): no suitable image found.  Did find:
	...: code signature in (...) not valid for use in process using Library Validation: mapped file has no Team ID and is not a platform binary (signed with custom identity or adhoc?))
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