Why does pester need "Accessiblity" permissions?

[pmetzger]

Running Pester under MacOS 13.5.1, I get prompted to give Pester accessibility permissions. Any idea why?

[nriley]

Hi Perry — this is because Pester pops up its alert window on top of what you're doing, and it is trying to be considerate to make sure you're not typing when it pops anything up and end up typing your text into the Pester alert instead. It'll delay the alert window, though not other alert options, for a bit.

You can see the code that does this here — simply asking macOS for the elapsed time since you last typed anything or moved the mouse.

If/when I get around to releasing another version of Pester (sorry, life has been very busy) I think I can add an explanation to this prompt. If you don't want/care about this feature you can feel free to deny access.

[pmetzger]

I think you should do a new release; it's been a while and Pester is remarkably useful.

[nriley]

If only it were that easy to find the time — my life is so different these days from 21 years ago when I started working on Pester! Thanks for sticking with it after all these years (I still use Pester daily myself).

Certainly going to try to give it a shot later this year.

[pmetzger]

Does doing a release require more than a few minutes? Would it help if I was to help you set up a github CI etc?

[upekkha]

Yes, please release a new version. The app has been flagged as deprecated in homebrew, as it looks unmaintained to them.

[billgothacked]

Good point:)