[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-05 Thread Ned Deily
Change by Ned Deily : -- resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bu

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-05 Thread Adrian
Adrian added the comment: Terry, After opening issues on this and other mailing lists (PyObjc) Apple validated our app without a comment. Adrian > On 5 Mar 2021, at 21:51, Terry J. Reedy wrote: > > > Terry J. Reedy added the comment: > > Adrian, when responding by email, please delet

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Adrian, when responding by email, please delete the copy of the email you are responding to, except maybe a line or two, as it is redundant when posted on the web page. Have you tried forums where there might be other Apple app developers with similar issue

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Ned Deily
Change by Ned Deily : -- type: security -> ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.pyth

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Adrian
New submission from Adrian : My company maintains several Python related projects, one of them being an application published for many years in the Mac App Store. During the submittion of the last update for the app, we were refused by Apple to publish the software with the following reason:

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Adrian
Adrian added the comment: Hi Ned, Yes, I have submitted Python apps to Mac App Store since 2009, for 12 years. Each new push opens a new pandoras box with different questions asked than previously. There is no learning curve, is just walls with more walls behind each submission. The officia

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: > What am I suppose to do? I appreciate that it's a nasty problem. Unfortunately, this is unknown territory for me: I have no experience with the Mac App Store and this is the first time I've run across a report like this. So the question again is: what has chan

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Adrian
Adrian added the comment: Hi Ned, I have a ticket opened with Apple. They refuse the software as it, they are in a position of absolute power, to reject and drop many years of work on a dime. What am I suppose to do? I can fix my own software, but then there are dependencies like Python itse

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: BTW, if you haven't already, I would strongly suggest you ask on one of the Apple Developer Forums. My first guess is that the App Store validation process is trying to incorrectly apply rules to your local Python framework (from the Python.org installed framewor

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: Hmm, yours is the first report of this here that I'm aware of. I see other reports on the web of other non-Python projects running into similar problems. So one question is what has changed? Can you report the version info string of this Python? Have you previous

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Adrian
Adrian added the comment: My apologies, you may disregard any libraries not downloaded from python.org I am strictly speaking about the following items related to this mailing list: • Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/libformw.5.dylib/_wadd_wchnstr •

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Adrian
Adrian added the comment: My apologies, you may disregard any libraries not downloaded from python.org I am strictly speaking about the following items related to this mailing list: • Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/libformw.5.dylib/_wadd_wchnstr •

[issue43374] Apple refuses apps written in Python

2021-03-02 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: >From where are you getting the Python that you are using in the app? A number >of those libraries are not part of the python.org Mac binaries. And are you >compiling with c++ by any chance? -- ___ Python tracker