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  1. Puppet
  2. PUP-1455

Puppet should utilize a faster plist library to read/write plist files

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    • Type: New Feature
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Normal
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Fix Version/s: PUP 4.4.0
    • Component/s: None
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      3
    • Sprint:
      Client 2015-12-02, Client 2015-12-16, Client 2015-12-30, Client 2016-01-13
    • Release Notes:
      New Feature
    • Release Notes Summary:
      Puppet now uses CFPropertyList to read launchd plists instead of shelling out to plutil, significantly speeding up user, group, and service management on OSX.

      Description

      Currently Puppet has to run `plutil -convert xml1` on EVERY plist it encounters because it has no way of supporting binary plist files. The CFPropertyList project is a Ruby library that allows direct access to read/write plist files WITHOUT using Apple's CoreFoundation libraries (which give Puppet problems due to green threading). Puppet should be able to utilize that library to read/write plist files as it would speed up service resource handling exponentially.

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-5505 Reading services on Mac is very slow

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
          • Closed

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PUP-4002 Add mechanism for providers to store state during catalog application

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
          • Accepted
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          [Puppet Labs Redmine] Redmine (#11298) Puppet should utilize CFPropertyList to read/write plist files

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              Eric Thompson
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