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Re: Agent Applications and launchd

Alberto Ricart wrote:


On Dec 31, 2005, at 5:23 AM, j o a r wrote:

then perhaps you shouldn't be using CFPreferences either? Who knows how many lines of code it's made up of? ;-)


The question is not the depth of the code path, but who the owner of the code is. The 800 line solution would lie on my side (as in it would need to be supported by me even if with support from the great folks at dts). My whole point is that the supported way is ridiculous - "autolaunch foo" is a simple request and shouldn't take more than 5 lines of code to specify - heck I bet the whole autolaunch functionality doesn't have that much code.

Have you read the accompanying docs? Or did you just get a ruler out, measure the code, and decide you didn't like it? :)
Seriously, the AppleScript version /is/ about 5 lines of code. It is truly trivial.
The "800 lines of code" you keep harping on about is the C code necessary to synthesize this AppleScript with raw AppleEvents. AppleEvent code has always been bulky, but that's been an issue since System 7.0--get used to it :) It is highly unlikely to require changes in the future.
You have options if you want to make it smaller. For instance, you can always embed the AppleScript in your code and compile and run it on the fly (see OSACompile/OSAExecute). Or you can redesign the code to use AEBuildAppleEvent, which makes the code a lot tighter (but a little harder to read in some cases).


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