[Openmcl-devel] iPhone

[Andrew Shalit]

It's certainly possible.  Apple's rules for what they allow and don't  
allow give them a lot of leeway.  The cynical might even call the  
rules arbitrary.

Their restriction on interpreters would not necessarily disallow CL  
applications.  They discuss interpreters in the same breath as  
"component systems."  It looks like their chief concern is not opening  
a doorway that would allow users (or developers) to load additional  
executable code onto an app after it was delivered.  If you had a  
Common Lisp application didn't expose that type of capability, it  
could certainly make it through.

That said, Apple really has been arbitrary in rejecting apps.  You  
don't have to look far to find multiple stories of people whose apps  
are rejected for doing things several previously approved apps do.   
It's a black box, and unless you have Nine Inch Nails' publicist,  
there's not a lot you can do about it.

In term of making this a technical possibility:

As far as I know, we haven't looked at what specifically would be  
required to build an app containing CCL that could be codesigned by  
Xcode.  I just don't know how easy/hard/possible/impossible that would  
be.

There's also the small matter of getting six to twelve months of Gary  
Byers' time funded to do the ARM port.  If anyone would like to make a  
contribution to that, please let us know.  We have not so far been  
able to find any significant funding source.

I'd love to see it happen, though.




On Jun 19, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Ian Eslick wrote:

> I know there's an open task to think about making ClozureCL work on
> the ARM and use the bridge to build iPhone apps.  Does anyone know
> whether such an app is remotely likely to pass the Apple store review
> process?
>
> Thank you,
> Ian
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