Sounds like most of the apps I actually use wouldn't qualify for the app store.
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 15, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote: > On 2011-12-15 21:53, Sean Kelly wrote: >> On Dec 15, 2011, at 4:47 AM, Michel Fortin wrote: >> >>> On 2011-12-15 11:33:15 +0000, Ruslan Mullakhmetov<tiaba...@gmail.com> said: >>> >>>> Probably, Mac App Store instalation would be the best? >>>> I don't know, do Apple policies allow to install a command line utilities >>>> via Macc App Store, but at least apple itself install OS X Lion and XCode >>>> via MAS. So, there is technical posibility to install arbitary toolset, >>>> not only pure GUI.app located in /Application. >>>> What do you say? >>> >>> Not a chance. The App Store is for applications. And applications are >>> required to be self-contained, they are not allowed to use an installer. >>> Apple is bypassing its own rules for Xcode. >> >> 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. > > > > An alpha of TextMate 2 has recently been release and TextMate 2 will not be > in the App Store because it would need to give up features. > > The BBEdit editor is available on the App Store but: > > "...BBEdit does not support automatic installation and updating of the > bbedit, bbfind, and bbdiff command-line tools..." > > -- > /Jacob Carlborg
