Archive for June 14th, 2010

RegexKitLite PANIC!

You remember way waaaaaay back when we mentioned that RegexKitLite looked like pretty awesome stuff for your iPhone app’s regular expression needs?

Well, we hope you didn’t actually listen to us, or you have a problem now, apparently:

Bad News, Everyone! — Professor Farnsworth

I’ve received nearly half a dozen reports that iOS4 applications using RegexKitLite are now being rejected when they are submitted for AppStore approval due to violating section 3.3.1.

I don’t wish to speculate publicly as to why at this point due to the fact that iOS 4 is still under NDA. Needless to say, if you application uses RegexKitLite, you should prepare for the fact that it will likely be rejected at this point.

Whoa.

The Sourceforge project page has some discussion of this as a potential issue (search for “The iPhone 4.0 SDK Agreement”) and available alternatives (search for “iPhone OS ≥ 3.2″, so if this is an issue for your about to be submitted app, we suggest you start there. Good luck with that!

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