[Openmcl-devel] CCL and the Mac App Store

[Andrew Shalit]

On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

> Gail Zacharias <gz at clozure.com> writes:
> 
>> Perhaps they don't plan to apply the rules to developer tools.  That
>> would make sense if the goal of sandboxing is to protect
>> computer-naive users. 
> 
> There's no technical problem sandboxing development tools.

Are you familiar with Apple's implementation of sandboxing?  It currently provides a very limited set of entitlements.  If they don't expand these, it will be difficult to have full-fledged Common Lisp running in the Apple sandbox.

> There may be user interface questions, you'd have to import/export
> sources, export signed binaries, etc, but nothing too difficult.

I hope I'm wrong and you're right!  I guess we'll see.