On 30 Aug 2012, at 05:10, John Bishop <j...@mulligansoftware.com> wrote:
> On 30 Aug 2012 07:01:04 +0800, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote: > >> >> On 30 Aug, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> But before anyone reads too far, I am making certain assumptions that may >>> indeed be false. That iOS and Mac OS app Sandboxing is absolutely required >>> and you can't make apps without it enabled, whether the apps are destined >>> for the App store or not. >>> >> >> For iOS it's true, always has been. For OSX it's not. If the app is for the >> store you must sandbox it, but you can distribute apps outside the store >> with no sandboxing at all and you have the intermediate step of signing with >> a developer id which doesn't require sandboxing but lets the user know apple >> knows who wrote the app. Use of iCloud on OSX requires the sandbox. > > Almost. I believe use of iCloud is limited to apps from the Mac App Store, > which must be sandboxed whether including iCloud capabilities or not. > Sandboxing can be implemented outside the Mac App Store, but is rarely > (ever?) implemented because of the uh... "complexities" associated with the > technology at the moment. Those apps, sandboxed but delivered outside the Mac > App Store, which invoke iCloud APIs are reported to fail in the sandbox > because they don't include Apple's credentials in their code signature. > > My personal opinion is that this restriction may eventually be relaxed by > Apple some day (don't hold your breath) if it becomes technically and > economically beneficial to do so simply by removing the Apple code signing > requirement in the OS. I have no knowledge of plans or methods to accomplish > this... just a hunch. You have filed a radar requesting this, yes? _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
