Oops, I mixed up entitlements and sandboxing. Sandboxing is a subset of entitlements and it is possible to enable entitlements for iCloud without enabling sandboxing for the app. I thought I recalled engineers referencing iCloud & the sandbox together during WWDC, but I must have been mistaken.
I still believe that sandboxing is not ready for primetime and that it is a concern for a lot of apps that currently are approved for the Mac App Store, but cannot be sandboxed due to limitations of its implementation. I know that my own app, which is in the Mac App Store, requires additional API support from Apple to enable me to sandbox it without losing significant functionality. On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Mark Munz <unmar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Sean McBride <s...@rogue-research.com> > wrote: >> >> It's also worth remembering that the Mac App Store is not required either, >> unlike on iOS devices. If you can't or don't want to sandbox, you can >> distribute elsewhere. > > It's also worth noting that if you want to use iCloud, sandboxing is a > requirement. > > IMHO, sandboxing was rushed out without real world testing. Apple > announced sandboxing to developers in June and with a GM just a few > weeks later, Lion shipped in July. As far as I can tell, there have > been no documented changes/fixes to the sandbox issues in either > 10.7.1 or 10.7.2. Apple is often quite vague about what it fixes in > its updates, so it is possible they did something, but did not > document it. And there are no indications of fixes for any of the > issues mentioned in the devforums. > > So while the argument can be made that apps aren't required to use the > sandbox, it quickly becomes a hindrance both in making your app > available and supporting things like iCloud. > > -- > Mark Munz > unmarked software > http://www.unmarked.com/ > -- Mark Munz unmarked software http://www.unmarked.com/ _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
