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The removal of launchd is a bit of a bummer.

• jzelinskie 12y ago
  especially since someone had been working on porting it to FreeBSD for their Summer of Code project.
  • gonzo 12y ago
    It's already running. https://github.com/outbackdingo/launchd_xml https://github.com/outbackdingo/launchd_xml https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd Works on 10.1
• lambda 12y ago
  Not running 10.10 at the moment; did they switch to something else, or just not release the source?
  • reubenmorais 12y ago
    It's still used, they haven't released the source.
  • bigdubs 12y ago
    launchd is still the launch agent for 10.10, they probably just removed the source for this version.
    • calinet6 12y ago
      Ah, the freedoms of permissive licenses... better than proprietary at least.
      • cowsandmilk 12y ago
        they wrote launchd. Even if they released it under GPL, as the copyright owners, they would have the freedom to make future releases closed source.
  • MagerValp 12y ago
    10.10 ships launchd 2.0 which is a complete rewrite: https://twitter.com/launchderp/status/528053818156527616 https://twitter.com/launchderp/status/528053818156527616 Apparently the launchd code got rolled into xpc, which is closed source.
• 0x09 12y ago
  I guess this puts the quiet removal of launchd from macosforge.org into perspective. http://web.archive.org/web/20120609100559/http://launchd.macosforge.org/ http://web.archive.org/web/20120609100559/http://launchd.mac... Unfortunate timing since it was finally getting a working port on FreeBSD.