On 2011-12-15 20:53:23 +0000, Sean Kelly <s...@invisibleduck.org> said:
There is some grey area here though. TextMate, for example, is an application but has a preference that will put a link in /usr/bin to launch it from the command-line. So apps are allowed to configure the environment on request. For DMD you'd probably really have to bundle it with an IDE to qualify it as an app store item though.
But TextMate is not available on the Mac App Store. It probably wouldn't be allowed in the store if the version submitted to Apple had this feature.
To give you an idea of the mindset, Apple is currently trying to force Mac developers to sandbox their apps (similar to how apps are isolated on iOS) as a requirement to be available on the Mac App Store. Currently this requirement isn't enforced: it was scheduled to be enforced starting in november but this got pushed to march 2012… we'll see how well it goes. No doubt many apps will go out of the store when this becomes a requirement and they don't relax those rules.
-- Michel Fortin michel.for...@michelf.com http://michelf.com/
