Re: StartupItems
Re: StartupItems
- Subject: Re: StartupItems
- From: Dave Zarzycki <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:45:18 -0700
On Jun 2, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Peter Seebach wrote:
In message <email@hidden>, Dave
Zarzycki writ
es:
I don't believe any of us ever said that they were unimportant.
Broken, yes, unimportant no. If anybody suggested the latter, I'm
sorry.
Well, if the answer to "how do I run my existing program which I
don't own
or control the source to, which runs on all my other systems fine"
is "start
maintaining local patches yourself or coerce the developer to
introduce
Mac-only support code", that sort of feels like "unimportant".
Sigh... This has been discussed ad nauseam and our story hasn't
changed. If one wishes to run legacy programs unmodified, then one
should use StartupItems.
It sounds very much like the "support" launchd provides for
dependencies is
"if you want to do the ordering yourself, we won't stop you".
Is this something one could do with trivial wrappers, at least?
If you don't care about robustness, sure. But like I said earlier,
we're going round and round in circles. Yes, Apple understands that
the switch to launchd has caused a few IT professions grief as they
find themselves caught in the middle of the legacy software clashing
with modern OS design, but we hope that pain will be temporary.
Dave - has nothing new to add to this conversation - Zarzycki
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