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Hi Manfred,<br>
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Some comments.<br>
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I think it is relatively unlikely to succeed putting
MacSword/Eloquent in the Mac AppStore.<br>
The main stumbling blocks are:<br>
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- the module installer:<br>
Apple doesn't allow "Apps that download or install
additional code or resources to add functionality or change
their primary purpose will be rejected"<br>
<br>
- creating the links for the module utilities in
/usr/local/bin. For that we aquire admin priviledges via an
Apple API but allow doesn't allow that either:<br>
"Apps that request escalation to root privileges or use
setuid attributes will be rejected"<br>
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I'm not sure that you would want the module utilities
installed with Eloquent anyway (assuming you mean the SWORD
command line utilities). I suspect the majority of users
want to be able to read books other people have created, not
work on creating their own, so making them install the
module creation tools seems the wrong thing to do anyway.<br>
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Well. The SWORD command line utils come bundled with Eloquent. I
thought it'd be a good idea to give some support to module
developers. There are no precompiled utilities for Mac available
elsewhere.<br>
It's not absolutely necessary to create symbolic links to
/usr/local/bin though, or as Nic suggested create a special version
which I did anyway to remove/add the Sparkle updater.<br>
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- finally Apps are only allowed to create folders in the
filesystem that reflect the name of the App. We create a
"Sword" folder where the modules are stored.<br>
Apple says we do not "comply with the Mac OS X File System
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Is this only top-level directory? In other words, can you
create a directory like Eloquent/SWORD? If so, I'm not sure
that I see the problem. If not, I think it's far too over
restrictive (it's not at all uncommon to create directories
like "data" in your apps personal configuration directory to
organise the files a bit better, and its certainly not going
to confuse those files with other files).<br>
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It is a top-level directory under "~/Application Support" where
Eloquent creates "Eloquent" (which is OK) and "Sword" folder for the
modules.<br>
Creating "Eloquent/Sword" would be OK but "Sword" is shared with
BibleDesktop and Alkitab and is the default SWORD module folder.<br>
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Hi Guys.
<br>
<br>
I think it is relatively unlikely to succeed putting
MacSword/Eloquent in the Mac AppStore.
<br>
The main stumbling blocks are:
<br>
<br>
- the module installer:
<br>
Apple doesn't allow "Apps that download or install additional
code or resources to add functionality or change their primary
purpose will be rejected"
<br>
<br>
- creating the links for the module utilities in /usr/local/bin.
For that we aquire admin priviledges via an Apple API but allow
doesn't allow that either:
<br>
"Apps that request escalation to root privileges or use setuid
attributes will be rejected"
<br>
<br>
- finally Apps are only allowed to create folders in the
filesystem that reflect the name of the App. We create a "Sword"
folder where the modules are stored.
<br>
Apple says we do not "comply with the Mac OS X File System
documentation".
<br>
<br>
<br>
Nic, did you have similar issues (module installer and
filesystem)?
<br>
<br>
I'm not willing to remove this from the App and If Apple doesn't
except explanations for those then AppStore is a "no go".
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Manfred
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