App Store compatible Mac apps from AIR?

Hi,
I'm developing an app in Adobe AIR (HTML/JS), and while it's not critical, I'd like to have this app in the new Apple App Store. You won't find many people more disappointed with how Apple is running this store, but it may be a business reality that to get success on the Mac, App Store distribution is required.
I guess what this would involve would be to bundle up the whole AIR runtime into the app package, and hope the Apple minions think this is OK. Any plans at Adobe to do something about this?
Cheers
Garry

Hi Garry,
I actually had luck using the SHU Player http://www.shu-player.com/ to package my AIR app as a standalone executable. I am not sure if it would have passed Apple's guidelines, but it was a great start. However in my experience, Adobe will not grant a license for you to use Adobe AIR in this way. I was quite disappointed to say the least. Our native competitors have quite the advantage at the moment, and I've got my fingers crossed that AIR 3.0 to addresses this in a serious way. They've done something much harder with their iPhone compiler, and if SHU already does it, it makes me hopeful that it's more of a legal issue than a technical one.

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