Is there any conceptual information for using the Open Directory Framework. The current documentation just lists function names, constants, etc. with nothing on how to use.
I looked in the Apple archived documentation, but nothing. Seems like macOS developer documentation has been getting worse over time.
Thanks,
Richard
There isn’t a lot of conceptual information about for the Open Directory framework. The droid you’re looking for is the Open Directory Programming Guide. I expected to find that in the Documentation Archive, and it’s there but, weirdly, the link redirects to somewhere that’s only vaguely relevant.
Here’s that link:
If you past this into the The Wayback Machine [1] it’ll turn up the doc.
Another avenue to explore here is third-party documentation aiming at Apple site admins. It’s likely that those will include conceptual info about Open Directory. That isn’t a space I play in very much, so I don’t have any concrete links to share.
Finally, at the detailed API level, the Open Directory framework headers have a bunch of doc comments that I’ve found super useful.
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[1] http://waybackmachine.org