provide an unsigned .ipa

[adbenitez]

the latest release at https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/releases seems to be pretty outdated, could you please provide the latest release, some people don't use TestFlight(people without Internet access) and prefer to install the app directly on their jailbraked devices.

[r10s]

i've just removed the .ipa file from 2017 so that it cannot be installed accidentally and confuses people.

however, i have no idea if and how we can provide a new one.

[Simon-Laux]

I propose that we we provide an unsigned ipa that could be installed with http://www.cydiaimpactor.com/ for example.(the users can sign it) But we must make sure that it's unsigned -> we should name the ipa something like DeltaChat(unsigned)[version].ipa.
We should also provide some hashes for the files, to provide something with that users can check integrity.

I found this command on stackoverflow:

/usr/bin/xcodebuild -scheme MYSCHEME -workspace MYWORKSPACE.xcworkspace   
    -configuration Release clean archive -archivePath "build/APPNAME.xcarchive" 
    CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY="" CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25396299/generating-an-unsigned-ipa-ios-application

[dignifiedquire]

Impactor works pretty well, that is true.

[dignifiedquire]

Note: it does require to have a paid developer account to install using cydiaimpactor

[Simon-Laux]

Note: it does require to have a paid developer account to install using cydiaimpactor

Really? I thought you can install for 7 days with normal apple id.

[r10s]

i think we can close this. there is a "new" testflight release, as soon as rust-core is stable again, we'll release a next release.

[Simon-Laux]

Its about providing an unsigned IPA on the releases page for use with jail broken devices in countries where testflight doesn't work as good, right @adbenitez?

[r10s]

ah, i see. thanks for reopening :)

[Simon-Laux]

@r10s can you upload a unsigned IPA on the github releases page?

[r10s]

apart from the links above - this is just another target in xcode? with signing switched off? btw. wondering what the target deltachat-iosTests is for.

anyway, i personally do not want to enter this new playground just now.

[Simon-Laux]

/usr/bin/xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath build/DeltaChat.xcarchive gives us an unsigned archive, from there we just need to convert that to an ipa.. though I haven't found out how to do that yet

[r10s]

closing this, no one is working on that and the issue tracker is about things that actually happen or ppl have subscribed to.

discussion about that, of course, can continue in the forum.