What this means for us developers is that, when targeting the Mac platform, we have choices: we can distribute our apps independently, outside the Mac App Store, through the Mac App Store exclusively, or through both at the same time. Even with the introduction of Apple Silicon, Apple has made it very clear that the Mac is still the Mac, and is still hackable, even when running on the new architecture. This is a primitive bless, ie, it does not create boot files, but simply blesses the chosen System folder and (optionally) sets it to be used for startup on next launch.The Mac has always been very different from its close relative, iOS, especially when it comes to what a user is or is not allowed to run on their system. I still want to implement this using smartmontools, but for now diskutil will do.Blessing of Mac OS X System folders on attached volumes is now possible. status verification is now being done in the expert mode. Snow Leopard compatibility (Thanks again to Steve Anthony)Improved limits on output from syslog to STDOUTSimplified startup of services on Leopard and Snow LeopardFixed bug in creation of user account lists in Snow Leopard where system accounts would show upS.M.A.R.T. This is a primitive bless, ie, it does not create boot files, but simply blesses the chosen System folder and (optionally) sets it to be used for startup on next launch. I still want to implement this using smartmontools, but for now diskutil will do.īlessing of Mac OS X System folders on attached volumes is now possible.

Simplified startup of services on Leopard and Snow Leopardįixed bug in creation of user account lists in Snow Leopard where system accounts would show up Improved limits on output from syslog to STDOUT Snow Leopard compatibility (Thanks again to Steve Anthony)

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