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Last commit made 5 months ago, and no updates on the project anywhere. Seems abandoned.

privong 12y ago
The FreeBSD wiki page[0] has an updates page, with this, from a month and a half ago: > 20140910: Outback Dingo has made available an older port of pfSense's launchd_xml. [0] https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd
- vezzy-fnord 12y ago
  And a link to the repository: https://github.com/outbackdingo/launchd_xml https://github.com/outbackdingo/launchd_xml
  - feld 12y ago
    Note that the pfsense / outbackdingo launchd did something rather naughty -- it put the xml parser back in pid 1 which was intentionally not there by design at Apple. tl;dr even if you could convince the FreeBSD devs that launchd is a great idea they wouldn't accept this as-is.
    - riffraff 12y ago
      doesn't launchd on osx also parse plist xml files? How are those handled?
      - meepmorp 12y ago
        OS X has a binary plist format, too. Maybe it uses that to bootstrap and does xml parsing in sub-processes.
      - feld 12y ago
        There's another binary that does the processing and the data is sent to the launchd daemon over a Mach-specific IPC channel that FreeBSD doesn't have.
- rtyler 12y ago
  The launchd_xml code is mildly toxic for openlaunchd, it's derived off of the Apple Public Source License codebase instead of the newer Apache 2.0 licensed codebase that openlaunchd derives from. IMO the ASL is going to be required to get FreeBSD to adopt openlaunchd at some point
- rtyler 12y ago
  The launchd_xml code is mildly toxic for openlaunchd, it's derived off of the Apple Public Source License codebase instead of the newer Apache 2.0 licensed codebase that openlaunchd derives from. IMO the ASL is going to be required to get FreeBSD to adopt openlaunchd at some point
rtyler 12y ago
Not quite abandoned, more a question of time. The upstream code is sufficiently undocumented and without tests that in some cases my approach has been to #ifdef stuff out until I can at least get some units compiling. A test suite for this code would have made this whole effort far easier :(

The FreeBSD wiki page[0] has an updates page, with this, from a month and a half ago: > 20140910: Outback Dingo has made available an older port of pfSense's launchd_xml. [0] https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd

vezzy-fnord 12y ago
And a link to the repository: https://github.com/outbackdingo/launchd_xml https://github.com/outbackdingo/launchd_xml
- feld 12y ago
  Note that the pfsense / outbackdingo launchd did something rather naughty -- it put the xml parser back in pid 1 which was intentionally not there by design at Apple. tl;dr even if you could convince the FreeBSD devs that launchd is a great idea they wouldn't accept this as-is.
  - riffraff 12y ago
    doesn't launchd on osx also parse plist xml files? How are those handled?
    - meepmorp 12y ago
      OS X has a binary plist format, too. Maybe it uses that to bootstrap and does xml parsing in sub-processes.
    - feld 12y ago
      There's another binary that does the processing and the data is sent to the launchd daemon over a Mach-specific IPC channel that FreeBSD doesn't have.
rtyler 12y ago
The launchd_xml code is mildly toxic for openlaunchd, it's derived off of the Apple Public Source License codebase instead of the newer Apache 2.0 licensed codebase that openlaunchd derives from. IMO the ASL is going to be required to get FreeBSD to adopt openlaunchd at some point
rtyler 12y ago
The launchd_xml code is mildly toxic for openlaunchd, it's derived off of the Apple Public Source License codebase instead of the newer Apache 2.0 licensed codebase that openlaunchd derives from. IMO the ASL is going to be required to get FreeBSD to adopt openlaunchd at some point

rtyler 12y ago

Not quite abandoned, more a question of time. The upstream code is sufficiently undocumented and without tests that in some cases my approach has been to #ifdef stuff out until I can at least get some units compiling. A test suite for this code would have made this whole effort far easier :(