OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

[J. Landman Gay]

Just a couple of comments:

On 9/11/19 12:57 AM, Peter Reid via use-livecode wrote:
> 5. The $100 charge each year is inexcusable. Basically Apple are saying "We'll make any app development more tedious unless you pay up $100 every year.". Even the development of the simplest app, to be used as a temporary tool by a couple of friends will be blighted by warnings,  etc. if you don't pay $100 per year and jump through the hoops! Apple are deliberately making life more difficult and charging us $100 a year for the privilege!

Apple now offers a free developer account for personal apps that aren't 
for sale.


> 7. If a new-to-LC developer wants to do the usual "Hello World" trivial 1st app (making an executable standalone app), they have to understand code-signing, notarising and stapling, DMG/ZIP creation and be signed/paid-up Apple developers.

For testing on your own phone you don't need any of that. Just cable the 
phone to the computer (or use the simulator) and you're good to go.

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