@mflatt is this a known issue with macOS permissions? https://www.reddit.com/r/Racket/comments/ae8jlx/why_does_drracket_ask_for_permission_to_control/

I have seen this, and I don’t know what causes it – the use of some API, I guess. Since it goes away after the very first time, I’ve only seen it once. Maybe it’s once per app, though, so I should try more.

this suggests that it’s the accessibility API: https://superuser.com/questions/1149848/mac-what-permissions-are-granted-for-allow-the-apps-below-to-control-your-comp

Does anyone know if the videos for the last racketcon will make it online?

I had seen something like that before, but racket/gui doesn’t directly use anything labeled as the “Accessibility API”.

It turns out that the trigger is a call to CGEventTapCreate, which is there to compensate for a problem detecting a menu-bar click on 10.13. But it seems that 10.14 has returned to the old behavior in a corner of the event system, where CGEventTapCreate isn’t needed as a workaround (and the code falls back to the old behavior, just in case it helps, if CGEventTapCreate fails – which it does and does on 10.14). So, I can make the use of CGEventTapCreate 10.13-specific.

Ah, I see that this is actually mentioned (under “Discussion”) here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/1454426-cgeventtapcreate

Except that racket/gui asks only for mouse events, not keyboard events.

Strange build error on the build server: https://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/server/built/fail/game-engine.txt

The pkg-build machine can’t support references that aren’t catalog-resolved names, since the build virtual machine isn’t connected to the network

Ah! I thought it was a fluke - a random connection to Github that failed.

I see now that https://github.com/thoughtstem/game-engine/blob/master/info.rkt refers to a specific version of lux.

The question arose because a user on Reddit asked whether game-engine was abandoned (he noticed that the build failed).