Bitcoin Core Daemon on OSX Yosemite

[kevcooper]

I am currently running a full node (v0.11.0) on OS X Yosemite (10.10.5) and would be happy to contribute a short tutorial and some screenshots in addition to whatever else is needed!

[harding]

@kevcooper thanks! Just earlier today someone else said that they were going to start working on that in issue #1023. What I suggest is that you subscribe to that issue (it's in the right-side menu when you visit that issue) and see what happens; if there's no activity for a week or so, I'll post a comment and you can take over.

Let me know if that works for you. Thanks again!

[kevcooper]

sounds good!

[drazisil]

@kevcooper it looks like the person from #1023 isn't going to write the instructions, as they appear to be no longer running bitcoind, so you can probably go ahead.

[kevcooper]

Okay I'll get started!

[kevcooper]

I've got a rough draft done here. Let me know what I need to change or add. I didn't include any screenshots since the entire process is done from the command line but I can add some if necessary. Also, I know I shouldn't link to my personal gist for the Launch Agent in the final version but I wasn't quite sure where else to put it. Let me know where in the repo I should put the .plist file or if I should just provide the text and advise people to copy and paste it to create their Launch Agent.

[carnesen]

Today I'll review the draft and try the Launch Agent instructions. I know @harding and @saivann aren't Mac folks.

[carnesen]

I've read through the draft, and it looks pretty good! I do have some feedback though. Perhaps you could submit a pull request upon which we'll provide line comments? @harding @saivann, please correct me if that's not the preferred workflow here.

Speaking of which I think the right place for that plist is the Bitcoin Core repo alongside the config files for upstart, systemd, etc.. That'd be a separate pull request, of course.

[saivann]

@kevcooper Agreed with @carnesen, if you could submit your osx-daemon branch as a pull request, that'd be great. Thanks for your help!

[kevcooper]

Okay I'll squash and submit a PR later today. I also submitted a PR to Bitcoin core for the launch agent so that'll need to be merged before I can use it in the guide.

[carnesen]

Pull was submitted as #1046

@kevcooper if you include the phrase "closes #1026" in your commit message, GitHub will close this issue automagically when the pull gets merged into master.

[kevcooper]

@carnesen awesome I'll add that in my next commit!