It would be great to have BOINC in the App Store.
However, there are items in Apple's "Review Guidelines"
that would seem to preclude BOINC:
2.15 Apps must be self-contained, single application installation bundles, and
cannot install code or resources in shared locations
2.16 Apps that download or install additional code or resources to add functionality
or change their primary purpose will be rejected
2.17 Apps that download other standalone Apps will be rejected
See https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/mac/#functionality
It's possible that Apple would relax these rules in our case.
If anyone wants to initiate a dialog with them, please go ahead.
-- David
On 5/23/2016 12:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
hello,
thank you for your wonderful software. I want to ask if it is possible to provide
this software through the Apple App store? The reason that I ask is because OS X
provides an option for security to download software only through the App Store to
prevent malware from being installed into the OS X operating system. I have read
that some opensource software has been compromised by malware such as the
Transmission bittorrent client. I presume that Apple does some additional security
checks before releasing apps through the App Store. Are there copyright or patent
issues or financial reasons that prevent you from doing this? thanks for your time
and your efforts developing this software.
joe
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