Autostart

[tg44]

How deep do we want to configure the autostart/autorun functionality?

I'm thinking of a launchd file which will be inserted to the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ folder, and let to run the rules automatically daily 1-2x. As a minimal setup.

Do we need a more hardcore feature set around it? Or just an on/off switch is enough which will run the thing daily? Or should I just push things to crontab and give some minimal config options to which hours we want to run this?

[GBrachetta]

I think 2x/day should be enough, no? Unless there's some compulsive project creator around there?

[jgoldhammer]

I would start simple by using launchd. A good overview is here: https://www.launchd.info

You could wrap the launchd commands to enable or disable the job completely in heptapod commands

You could also allow to run and stop the job immediately

A good starting point could be:
https://github.com/keybase/client/blob/master/go/launchd/launchd.go

Another idea would be to run heptapo more often, but have a kind of change detection to see if a complete scan is necessary. But this is more sophisticated and maybe overkill and errorprone.