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. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Alexander Repenning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ralex@cs.colorado.edu">ralex@cs.colorado.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Any guesses if Apple may grandfather current App Store Apps once they implement their sandbox? I mean, what would they do with the 500,000 apps when the requirement becomes mandatory? They probably could not just throw existing Apps out. I guess they could, but what would they be left with?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Alex</div><div class="im"><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Andrew Shalit wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium">They did not make us jump through any special hoops.  We did what the documentation says to do in terms of code signing, submitted, and got approved.<br>

<br>By "we" I mean Matt, of course.<br><br>Note that we don't know what will happen when Apple starts enforcing its sandboxing rules.  That's part of why we want CCL in the store: so that we ask concrete questions about sandbox in reference to our existing app.  But the potential sandboxing issues aren't related to the fact that CCL is written in Lisp; they're related to the fact that CCL is a development tool and so it wants to be able to do things like have read-write access to multiple files on disk, and know where its home directory is so it can load an init.lisp file.<br>

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<font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Prof. Alexander Repenning</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px">University of Colorado</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px">

Computer Science Department</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px">Boulder, CO 80309-430</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">vCard: <a href="http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/AlexanderRepenning.vcf" target="_blank">http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/AlexanderRepenning.vcf</a></font></p>

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