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Today's Topics:
1. Publishing X11 based applications (Filhol Alain)
2. Re: Publishing X11 based applications (Ken Thomases)
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:30:28 +0100
From: Filhol Alain <email@hidden>
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Subject: Publishing X11 based applications
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Hello,
Is it possible to publish an X11 based application to the App Store ?
I searched the web for advices but found nothing useful.
More precisely, I successfully compiled for OS X a large scientific suite written in FORTRAN. The GUI is based on Winteracter <http://www.winteracter.com/> which is based on OpenMotif and X11.
OpenMotif and Winteracter are linked as static libraries. Everything is organized in the form of an OS X package and environment variables are set at launch time.
Of course the OpenMotif GUI is quite ugly by OS X standards but the focus of the physicists who wrote the program suite is science, not computing.
Is there something special I shall do concerning X11, e.g. a specific entitlement ?
All the best
Alain Filhol
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Dr. Alain Filhol (Computer scientist)
Institut Laue-Langevin, EPN Campus
CS 20156, 71 ave des Martyrs
F-38042 Grenoble cedex 9
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Tel:+33 4.76.20.71.56, Fax: +33 4.76.20.76.48
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:50:21 -0500
From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
To: Filhol Alain <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Publishing X11 based applications
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On Mar 14, 2016, at 12:30 PM, Filhol Alain <email@hidden> wrote:
Is it possible to publish an X11 based application to the App Store ?
Almost certainly not. From the Mac App Store Review Guidelines <https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/mac/#functionality <https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/mac/#functionality>>:
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Apps that use deprecated or optionally installed technologies (e.g., Java, Rosetta) will be rejected"
XQuartz is optionally installed.
It may be possible to build an app that was itself an X server ā basically, a modified build of XQuartz itself ā that launched the X client program to run against that built-in server. Getting the X server working in the sandbox may be difficult. Enabling the client to connect to the server via Unix domain socket will require some special handling, since sandboxed apps have tight restrictions on connecting to Unix domain sockets. Etc.
Regards,
Ken
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