@shawwn The reason is that /usr/local/bin is not in the default $PATH on macOS, even after installing Homebrew, one has to add it manually to PATH via bash rcs.

Need to be thoughtful with adding default fall-back to /usr/local/bin, since Tarsnap GUI has to be considerate of all Unices, not just macOS. :)

People still use unix?

Mostly joking.

The reason is that /usr/local/bin is not in the default $PATH on macOS, even after installing Homebrew, one has to add it manually to PATH via bash rcs.

I think /usr/local/bin is on every macOS $PATH, even for fresh installs. (I created a new user and verified.)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9832770/where-is-the-default-terminal-path-located-on-mac

The value of /etc/paths is:

/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin

Not for GUI desktop apps.

Ah, this was assuming tarsnap-gui would be migrating to a brew cask Tarsnap formula. I believe it takes care of adding /usr/local/bin to the PATH.

Heh, this exposes an amusing series of errors (mostly on my part). I was puzzled as to why this wasn't failing the tests, but I discovered:

• the automated tests aren't enabled on Travis-CI because there's something wrong with their installation of Qt. I haven't seen it happen on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial, so I was waiting in the hopes that they'd get xenial images soon (since it's been more than 2 years since its release!). I might set up my own test suite on a raspberry pi.

• the automated tests do check that a fake-dir produces no binary, but it does this by changing the value of the appDataPathLineEdit widget. That triggers the validateAdvancedSetupPage() function, which has its own Utils::findTarsnapClientInPath() on line 250, which wipes out the previous manual setting. If we apply the proposed fix to that line, the test does fail properly.

• The test should fail because we use a non-blank _tarsnapDir to indicate that binary is present, so having a fall-back value of /usr/local/bin disrupts that.

If the brew cask takes care of /usr/local/bin, then I'd rather rely on that instead of messing around with Utils::findTarsnapClientInPath() and/or changing setupwizard.cpp. I'll double-check this once the cask is out there.

If the brew cask takes care of /usr/local/bin

Ah, small correction -- the fallback to /usr/local/bin is necessary on macOS regardless of whether it was installed via brew cask or not. When I did a user testing session yesterday, the user ran into this issue even though I'd installed Tarsnap.app via the new brew cask mechanism.

Alternatively, we could fix findTarsnapClientInPath to return /usr/local/bin on macOS (or at least not return blank).

I have an idea for findTarsnapClientInPath(), which I'll implement and put up. I'd rather not add more stuff to 1.0.2, but I think this is important enough to qualify.

Thanks for this PR! I'm closing it because it's been obsoleted by #204, but the discussion here was instrumental in creating that PR.