I’m not sure that’s the reason: - Only Playgrounds are restricted, not Apps. You can still use OSS toolchains to build apps, like you always could. - You can only submit to the AppStore from the latest stable Xcode (7.3, isn’t it?) - You can also deploy apps by manually building & installing with Xcode, Ad-Hoc or Enterprise deployment. AppStore is the most widely available way to distribute, but there are other ways.
I always assumed that the reason we couldn’t use OSS toolchains in Playgrounds before was because of API changes in the hooks between Xcode and Swift/SourceKit/whatever is responsible for Playgrounds. Seems strange that we can muck around with a Swift nightly and AppKit APIs, but not the (to many people) more familiar UIKit APIs. Karl > On 14 Jun 2016, at 02:49, Shawn Erickson <shaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Those later platforms are "curated", you can only deploy apps via the App > Store. It seems likely to ensure the policies and security model associated > with that curation only Apple signed toolchains can be used for deployment. > > -Shawn > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 5:41 PM Karl via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org > <mailto:swift-dev@swift.org>> wrote: > Wow, Xcode 8 looks like a really great release. Very impressed by the memory > debugger, but it seems to have lots of really nice improvements all-around. > > According to the release notes > (http://adcdownload.apple.com/WWDC_2016/Xcode_8_beta/Release_Notes_for_Xcode_8_beta.pdf > > <http://adcdownload.apple.com/WWDC_2016/Xcode_8_beta/Release_Notes_for_Xcode_8_beta.pdf>), > we can now use OSS toolchains for Playgrounds on OSX, but not with other > platforms. > > Is that a temporary limitation, or an intentional Apple policy decision? > > > • Xcode playgrounds which target macOS now support running with > > open-source Swift toolchains from Swift.org. Playgrounds which target iOS > > or tvOS require the Xcode 8.0 toolchain. (23287417, 26704661) > > Thanks > > Karl > _______________________________________________ > swift-dev mailing list > swift-dev@swift.org <mailto:swift-dev@swift.org> > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev > <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev>
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