On May 29, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > A number of commentators have jumped into the thread to declare, in effect, > that the sandboxing could *never* work. Such a point of view seems > inexplicably to ignore the fact that there is a platform out there already > (iOS) for which sandboxing is demonstrably viable -- technically, > economically, and functionally. My response to such commentators is, of > course: WTF?
The problem is, OS X is a much more sophisticated platform than iOS. I'm not saying that sandboxing could never work; it works just fine in applications with simple needs, but more sophisticated apps often can't run in the sandbox. I know at least one of our products cannot be sandboxed, because it won't work without the ability to post HID events, something that Apple refuses to allow in sandboxed apps. For that reason, remote desktop servers also cannot run in the sandbox. Apps that rely on NSWorkspace for much of their functionality also can't run in the sandbox. And the list goes on... Nick Zitzmann <http://www.chronosnet.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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
