Re: Implications of changing an app's bundle identifier
Re: Implications of changing an app's bundle identifier
- Subject: Re: Implications of changing an app's bundle identifier
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:55:08 +0100
Am 25.02.2007 um 22:32 schrieb Bill Cheeseman:
Speaking as a lawyer with considerable intellectual property law
experience,
I'm just that little bit more comfortable if I change the bundle
identifier
once somebody else owns the company name and domain. Although it is
pretty
well hidden from the average user, you have to anticipate that the
better
plaintiff's lawyers might find it in the Info.plist file and make a
big deal
out of it in front of the jury. I know I would....
Luckily, I have no court experience whatsoever. I just wanted to
point out that Apple designed the bundle ID as a unique identifier to
identify one app, which makes me wary of changing it because very
likely Apple haven't anticipated too many changes in this regard. A
different bundle identifier to Launch Services is a different
application, and there's a different set of rules and needs for two
applications that claim the same type than there is for two versions
of the same application. Just sayin', but of course if your lawyer
says you'd better change it, then by all means!
(...) and I do want
to be able to distinguish between the preferences files of the old
and the
new applications because of the downgrade issue discussed
previously. I've
posted my logic and some code in another message, making use of the
two
different domain names for this purpose. If I've got it right, it's
sufficiently easy to do that I don't see why not.
Well, you can easily specify a different domain for your user
defaults, giving you a different file name without having to change
your bundle ID.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de
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