Re: Mountain Lion changes
Re: Mountain Lion changes
- Subject: Re: Mountain Lion changes
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:11:45 -0400
- Thread-topic: Mountain Lion changes
On 7/25/12 11:04 AM, "Zav - public" <email@hidden> wrote:
>What I'm really worried about are the implications of sandboxing and the
>idiotic "every app is an island" approach. Often, I'll want to save a
>preference outside the app, or use AppleScript to write a file to my
>desktop that tracks the iTunes song I am playing in case I mistakenly
>quit and it forgets the song.
Actually, sandboxing is a pretty intelligent security issue, and only a
requirement for the MAS. Also, you might want to read up on the docs on
sandboxing in ML. It's a bit better than lion. Much actually. And a lot of
application sandboxing doesn't really apply to scripts. User-written
scripts are treated as you'd expect.
>
>The sandboxing API only allows a few supported folders to write to file
>saving outside of the app and these places (preferences too) all require
>user interaction to confirm the action.
you really, REALLY want to look at the changes to sandboxing in 10.8
>
>I've also got some patent pending material written in AppleScript and
>Xcode that I'm sure will end up breaking, yet, I really hope not.
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