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Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App?
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Andy Duplain



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PostPost subject: Re: Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App?    Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:04 am Reply to topic Reply with quote
hgm wrote:
I had understood that iOS does not support fork/exec at all. Apps could still be made self-contained if it did; you could simply bundle a GUI with the UCI engines you want it to run, and it would satisfy the App-store rules. (And bundling is allowed by GPL, so any author of a closed-source GUI could include all GPL'ed engines, as long as they were run as separate processes.)

The legal situation is a bit murky when I would try to circumvent the no-fork problem by writing my GUI as a multi-tasking operating system, loading the core image of an engine binary into its own memory, in a big array, and start a thread to run it, or implement its own threads through time-slicing the CPU with timer interrupts.


It's the Mac App Store I'm talking about, so fork/exec is supported just fine. I could bundle my own engines, but that would quickly lose its appeal as I would want to allow users to obtain and update their favourite engines for use with the interface.

There is always the possibility of releasing independently of the Mac App Store, of course.

What is the author of OSXBoard planning to do about this?

-A
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Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App? Andy Duplain Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:44 am
      Re: Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App? H.G.Muller Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:00 am
            Re: Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App? Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:56 am
            Re: Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App? Andy Duplain Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:04 am
                  Re: Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App? H.G.Muller Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:17 am
                        Re: Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App? Andy Duplain Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:29 am
      Re: Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App? Robert Purves Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:57 am
            Re: Opinions about Mac App Store and UCI user interface App? Andy Duplain Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:28 pm
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