On 16/06/06, Stephane replied on the wrong mailing list and had to
forward the message
On Jun 16, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
On 16/06/06, Stephane wrote:
> I'm terribly sorry to report that LaunchAgents are for all practical
> purposes, busted in Tiger. I'd advise against using them until
> Leopard. Sorry.
Stupid question, how could one do that? Since it's a .plist and I
don't
remember seeing a minimum OS version key, what would be the solution
to
prevent it from running on 10.4?
I think Dave meant that you should use an alternative to LaunchAgents,
such as programmatically modifying the login items, which is supported
and should work in future releases of the operating system, current
versions of the operating system and previous versions of the
operating system.
Going forwards, once LaunchAgents work properly (in Leopard), you
should think about transitioning to them. At this point in time, it's
probably best not to try and implement a LaunchAgent.
This is how I read it in the first place. The question was more about
backward compatibility:
Let's imagine this technology works fine on Leopard.
Let's imagine some software need to be both 10.4 and Leopard compatible.
How can you prevent your Launch Agent from being "launched" on 10.4
because of possible bugs?
Since it looks like the purpose of launch agent is to just
automatically run a task, does that mean that you need to manually run
the task at least once to see if you can run it automatically later.
This seems to defeat the automatic goal.
I know backward compatibility is so yesterday these days but...
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