a new guide: How Not To Install Ad-Hoc iPhone Apps
a new guide: How Not To Install Ad-Hoc iPhone Apps
- Subject: a new guide: How Not To Install Ad-Hoc iPhone Apps
- From: Ray Kiddy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:38:57 -0800
No ranting. Really. I mean, so what if I have been able to install
apps in the past? Then, upgrading from SDK 2.2 to 2.2.1 broke me and I
could not, and had to find out what barely documented hacks were taken
out that now break things.
Now, a project that was installable last week, and not changed, is not
installable. A few things in the project look different. The project's
reference to the Entitlements.plist was missing and I am positive I
did not take it out. And I found a few other things. Makes me wonder
what random crap got changed that I did not find....
Do you have a problem ranting in bugreporter bugs? I do. But I figured
something out. We are a cargo cult, waiting for info from some weird
noisy thing up in the sky. File a bug with no effort put into it.
"Dupe. Thanks and you'll never hear from us about this again." File a
bug with lots of info and steps on reproducing. "Dupe. Thanks and
you'll never hear from us about this again." Or better yet, you get:
"A bug. Thanks and you'll hear from us about this sometime in this
millennium." I have decided that ranting in some of these bugs might
be ok. After all, what is Apple going to do? They could not give me
information.... Oops! They already do that. Do they let us see the
'Workarounds' field in the bug? No. Do they update us about the bug's
status? No. There is a _lot_ of information in the Radar bug that
Apple sees and we see none of it. There is really not much they could
do to be more unhelpful, so if ranting makes me feel better, why
should I not?
Anyway....
If you are interested, please see: http://www.wykiwyk.com/iphone/HowToNotInstall/index.html
There may be something that seems obvious to you that I am missing. I
would actually like to turn this into a "How To" instead of a "How Not
To". I bet that I can write a targeted "how to" document and keep it
under 52 pages.
For now, I have several iPhone apps I want to start to distribute. But
if random stuff like this is going to happen, why bother? It is not as
though one can get past the security barriers to actually see what is
going on. Switching to Android development may be better for my blood
pressure. We'll see.
- ray
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