On: The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad

[r00fus]

What about in-app purchases? Why not a set of free in-app "purchase" options for large sets of these packages?

[msbarnett → r00fus]

In-app purchases can be used to trigger your application to download new data, but not new executable code.

[angus77 → msbarnett]

The packages are text files, not executables.

[joelhaasnoot → msbarnett]

Exactly, so all you could do is trigger certain bundles to be 'unlocked': you would always have to ship them.