On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 18:03 -0700, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
Funny that you should ask. R. Tyler Ballance, the author of the Google Summer of Code project, just emailed me about potentially reviving the port. Hopefully our new launchd maintainer, Damien, can help you both coordinate any porting activity.
I went ahead and pushed my Git repository onto "Github.com" (kind of like sourceforge, but sucks less), it was created with git-svn(1) so you'll see a lot of development history from dsorresso@ and zarzycki@ The "homepage" is here: http://github.com/rtyler/launchd-for-freebsd/tree/master The work i've been doing is in the "testing" branch: http://github.com/rtyler/launchd-for-freebsd/commits/testing/ As it stands right now I've been focusing on getting liblaunch.c to build and starting to write some tests just to understand how some of these things are working. The "test cases" are all located in launchd/src/testcases (ex: http://github.com/rtyler/launchd-for-freebsd/tree/testing/launchd/src/testca...) Currently liblaunch.c will build on FreeBSD, but there is a sizable portion of code that has been ifdef'd out that deals with mach and intenral launchd messaging. I'm going to be working on some more stuff tonight, but I just figured I'd let the list know in case Tsvetomir is feeling like hacking this weekend :) Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance