Syphon Server & OSX Lion Sandboxed Environment

[straule]

Hi,

when integrating the Syphon framework with a sandboxed App (Syphon Server) on OSX Lion the distributed notifications used to announce the server to clients are blocked by the Sandbox:

*** attempt to post distributed notification ‘info.v002.Syphon.ServerAnnounce’ thwarted by sandboxing.

Any way around this to make Syphon work with the Sandbox?

Thanks,
Heiko

[bangnoise]

No, in short.

This is obviously something we plan to fix – but it will require a complete rethink of how we handle broadcast and discovery.

[bangnoise]

This is tracked in issue 20.

[straule]

Thanks a lot for opening this issue. Luckily Apple is still approving non-Sandboxed Apps – we’ve just got our OSX App AirBeam with integrated Syphon Server approved and published. But if they stick to their plans they will change this policy probably in June.

[sigmasix]

I’m adding my stone to this problem.

Now non-sandboxed apps are not approved anymore.
My app is finished and fully tested but I cannot send it to the app store and Syphon doesn’t work when the app is sandboxed.

I’d be glad to help you!

I assume if you rewrite the whole broadcast and discovery system it break the compatibility with older versions of Syphon clients?!

Does anyone have an experience in negotiating to have an app that is not sandboxed in the App Store? Do you think this miracle could happen?

 

Thanks a lot for this wonderful framework by the way.

[bangnoise]

I’d be glad to help you!

Excellent!

I assume if you rewrite the whole broadcast and discovery system it break the compatibility with older versions of Syphon clients?

Yes, but I’m not too worried about that. We would still support the previous method for a transitory period so sharing between non-sandboxed apps wouldn’t be affected.

Does anyone have an experience in negotiating to have an app that is not sandboxed in the App Store? Do you think this miracle could happen?

I have never submitted an app to the App Store, so I’m no expert – but I understand this doesn’t happen at all now.

If you have some time, you could try profiling the performance loss with localhost networking to see what rate of messaging you can achieve, and what the latency is, compared to the current method. There is a project titled Messaging Test Rig in the implementations repo that might help. I can’t remember what state it’s in.

It would help if further discussion of this could happen on the issue ticket so we have it all for reference in one place.

[sigmasix]

We finally released the software ourselves without using the AppStore so no sandboxing needed!

http://syphoner.sigma6.ch

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