Investigate contacts, reminders and calendars permission when looking for Java

[MagOO33]

Hello and thank you for your work. I want to report something strange with MultiMC 5 : when I wanted to browse to my java 8 binary in my 1.12.2 instance, MultiMC asked for an access to my contacts, my reminds and my calendars. Is it normal ?

[ViRb3]

Hey there. While this is definitely normal and I have also experienced it, I cannot tell you exactly why the permission prompts are showing up. You can safely deny them as none of those folders are actually used. My suspicion is that this is due to the way MultiMC (and by extension, ManyMC) searches for all Java installations. We should investigate the source and see why this is happening, though.

[MagOO33]

OK, i understand. Thank you for your work.

[JJTech0130]

Perhaps if we fix this, someone should PR it in MultiMC. By the way, shouldn’t we open an upstream issue for this?

[ViRb3]

Does this happen in MultiMC? Their release is not codesigned at all, which may bypass the permission prompts. That's not an option for M1 however.

[JJTech0130]

Wait what? They didn’t codesign it? I would have thought for sure the official version would code sign it… especially considering how much perterix hates forks 🤣

[ViRb3]

To be honest, I don't remember. There was an issue with microphone on ManyMC because special entitlements were needed, which was not an issue on MultiMC because iirc it wasn't codesigned at all, so there were no entitlement requirements. Of course, feel free to check :)

[JJTech0130]

I believe you… just surprising