GSoC 2018 Project: Improve startupitem code

[Rainer Müller]

On 2018-02-15 20:22, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2018-2-16 06:02 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 10:47 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2018-2-16 05:04 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>>> How to handle two launchd plists with “port load” command? Separate ports?
>>>
>>> This is <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44295>.
>>
>> Is this one of the issues you are closing?
> 
> I have an approach in mind.
> 
>>>> The common locations where launchd plists need to be loaded from:
>>>> ~/Library/LaunchAgents
>>>
>>> Installing into ~ is problematic in general. I don't think it's really
>>> needed; per-user stuff can live in /Library/LaunchAgents.
>>
>> Of course, thanks for the point.
>>
>> So we might have “startupitem.directory /Library/LaunchDaemons”, the default, but can be set to “startupitem.directory /Library/LaunchAgents”?

I think we should stick to our terminology of path vs. directory. A path
is an absolute location in the filesystem, a directory is relative to
some path. For example, ${worksrcpath} is the absolute path where
configure/build/etc. are executed in, while ${worksrcdir} are just the
last components relative to ${workpath}.

Rainer