Re: Goodbye Lua on iPhone?

[Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@...>]

Anscamobile who make Corona SDK believe they are OK, since they
require Xcode and Apple SDK for their kit to work.  Andrew

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 00:41, Henk Boom <henk@henk.ca> wrote:
>>> Goodbye Lua on iPhone?
>
>> I thought this was already the case. From an excerpt of the agreement
>> on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS#Java
>
>> "No interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an Application
>> except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Documented APIs
>> and built-in interpreter(s)."
>
>> I've read that the "or" in "downloaded or used" was originally an
>> "and," but that Apple changed it at some point.
>
> No, it was not. In practice this rule prohibits allowing user to
> execute code which was not approved by Apple.
>
> Quite a few apps did use Lua.
>
> There are even a couple of frameworks:
>
> http://github.com/probablycorey/wax
> http://anscamobile.com/corona/
>
> Alexander.
>