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Xcode (and the entire tool-chain) has support for static frameworks that would negate any distribution problems the OP wants. Apple snips that functionality out of the iOS SDK for some unknown reason, but I suspect that would be a much better request to ask for.

I do agree that the iPhoneSimulator and iPhoneOS SDKs should be better integrated at compile time. Yet, they were architected as completely different environments, so I suspect that won't be an easy request to fulfill.

Anyway, what benefit would having a dynamically loaded library give you when each app runs sandboxed? I can just imagine a scenario where one framework uses a version of ASINetworking and another uses AFNetworking and they both attempt to use some version of JSONKit to parse out the result. Objective-C and its amazing namespace collision management will just carefully (and by carefully, I mean, not at all) pick one implementation over the other and leave a happy warning for all to see.



Did you even read the article? All of this is covered.

The question of "what benefit would having a dynamically loaded library give you when each app runs sandboxed" seems to be answered in great detail under "Debugging Info and Consistency" and "Missing Shared Library Features"




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