I’m more of a MacPorts kind of guy, and I’ve used fink in the past. It would be nice if we could support more of the Mac OS specific package managers.
> On Nov 21, 2018, at 7:07 AM, René Jansen <rvjan...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > I agree. > > Want to add to the discussion: homebrew (brew) has a ‘brew services’ command > that can install a service on macOS without requiring sudo. I imagine that it installs a user owned service. It just needs to point to the plist file, and place the PID file in a writeable position. I don’t know if this would make it fully multi user compatible. Or it could be using a setuid on ‘brew’ to accomplish the same thing as sudo. > A portable ‘installer’ (drag an application icon from a .dmg to > ~/Applications) would be a good thing. A ‘brew install oorexx’ would be a > good thing - brew manages dependencies (we don’t have a lot but Curses comes > to mind) and enables one to choose the location brew installs everything to > on a user base - and enables build-from-source installs. At least it already > offers sudo-less integration with launchctl. Dragging it from a disk image, and allowing it to execute from anywhere is a very Mac kind of thing to do. Of course it would be nice if RexxLA would sign up for Apple Developer so that we could digitally sign the installs. Bruce > > Now I am going to try Per’s .dmg image. > > René > > > >> On 21 Nov 2018, at 10:41, CV Bruce <cvbr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Well…. >> >> I agree with Enrico, mostly. >> >> Installation: Yes you need sudo privileges to write to >> /Library/LaunchDaemons. You also need sudo to write to /usr/local/… which is >> as far as I know, the current place to put system wide user programs. I >> could be wrong as I haven’t been keeping up. >> >> Execution: Yes, as far as I know you only need sudo for writing to >> /var/run/ooRexx.pid. The port bound by rxapi ( 10010? ) is out of the range >> requiring sudo authority to bin. >> >> Bruce >>> On Nov 21, 2018, at 5:12 AM, Enrico Sorichetti via Oorexx-devel >>> <oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>> The only reason for having sudo privileges is to install the plist into >>> /Library/LaunchDaemons >>> >>> The only reason for having sudo privileges when starting by hand the rxapi >>> thing is to write /var/run/ooRexx.pid >>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
