hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate(lapcatsoftware.com)
112 pointsby zdw3 hours ago11 comments
  • StilesCrisisan hour ago
    "Despite giving Apple 100% reliable steps to reproduce, they asked me if the issue still occurred in the latest beta, and if it does, then I should submit an iOS sysdiagnose." No one looked at your repro steps, and no one researched your bug. They're just looking to cull the bug list. If you don't respond immediately, your radar is closed.
    • boredatomsan hour ago
      Gotta pump those metrics for the PMs
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  • DrJokepu2 hours ago
    > To conclude, I don’t understand why hdiutil needs to be deprecated when the same functionality will live on in diskutil. For some reason, Apple seems intent on breaking longtime workflows and scripts.

    Brother, it’s Apple. Any backwards compatibility is purely incidental.

    • II2II44 minutes ago
      Given Apple's reputation as of late, I was mildly shocked to learn that I could connect a SATA optical drive to my Mac with a USB-SATA bridge, right click on an image in the Finder, and tell it to burn the image to DVD. This is under the latest beta of macOS.

      You can call it incidental if you want, but it generally takes some effort to ensure everything works. That's especially true when you consider how much has changed since optical drives were common.

      As for other forms of disk images, such as software distribution, those are still a common thing in macOS.

    • detourdog2 hours ago
      Diskutil has been around for over a decade and slowly getting features that hdiutil was missing.

      Things change but this is hardly some sort of sudden rug pull by Apple.

    • steve_adams_862 hours ago
      Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience. Same with our old iPad. They kept it updated way longer than I expected.
      • bigyabai2 hours ago
        > It’s not super current and not all apps work

        That's an enormous concession, relative to Windows or Linux.

        • mschuster91an hour ago
          > That's an enormous concession, relative to Windows or Linux.

          Windows yes, but Linux... no, at least if it's open source.

          Closed source apps that compile fully static, these tend to be stable and Just Run in my experience... but open source apps? Good luck trying to bring these to even compile 10 years afterwards without going through an insane dance with Docker...

          • doodlesdevan hour ago
            While that's absolutely correct, you're arguing with a strawman. Take a look at the original quote:

               > I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience.
            The point is I can run the latest Linux distributions and software on a 12 year old computer with no issues whatsoever.

            You might be able to do that in Windows, if you bypass TPM and CPU requirements or if you stay with Windows 10 extended updates.

            You won't be able to in macOS without OpenCore Legacy Patcher and a lot of faith in your God of choice.

          • cavem0nkey23 minutes ago
            Couldn’t agree with this more. Stuff I wrote 25 years ago for NT4 still actually works on windows 10 without a recompile.

            The Linux situation reminds me of unix back in the 90s even across distributions.

        • select12 hours ago
          On Linux, there aren't 'apps' that normal people want. Basic things like 'functional 1080p/4k Netflix' and 'commercial software' aren't really a thing.
          • fragmedean hour ago
            Netflix works, just not 4k. Blender and Davinci Resolve say there's commercial software, just not actual Photoshop.
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          • bel82 hours ago
            That's another goalpost. That's because DRM doesn't go well with Open source.
          • bigyabaian hour ago
            Correct, you have just successfully identified the reason why Windows exists. Well done!
      • pudgywalsh2 hours ago
        > Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways?

        No.

        Can't run current versions of any apps including Chrome, Edge, and Safari.

        Meanwhile the hardware is perfectly fine and could run a supported version of Windows or Linux.

        Call me when Apple has a "LTSC" version of their OS. (Spoiler: they won't, ever. Supporting Apple in an enterprise is nothing short of a nightmare.)

    • amelius8 minutes ago
      Consumer electronics, what do you expect ...
    • varispeed20 minutes ago
      Any reason to "upgrade"? I am still on Sonoma and don't see a point updating the system.
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  • nrabulinski2 hours ago
    Given xip has been deprecated for a long time now, yet still is the format Xcode is distributed in, I highly doubt hidutil will ever disappear from macOS. Apple just won’t really update it anymore, just like they haven’t changed xip (not like hidutil has seen any significant changes, but still)
    • bbatsell2 hours ago
      Agreed. seatbelt/sandbox-exec has been “deprecated” for many, many years yet it still underlies all of the system’s sandboxing and Claude et al. use it for their own sandboxes. (And so do I — writing seatbelt rules is the only chance I get to write lisp-flavored anything these days.)
      • sunshowersan hour ago
        This is only tangentially related, but libuv and mio's Windows implementations use the undocumented AFD readiness-based poll interface [1], since there isn't a documented readiness-based interface on Windows. The undocumented interface is now effectively stable since, among other reasons, Microsoft uses Tokio in some of its products.

        [1] https://github.com/tokio-rs/mio/blob/master/src/sys/windows/...

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    • dieulot2 hours ago
      Similarly, launchctl has long-deprecated subcommands. I initially tried using the new subcommands, ran into issues, and told myself I should have known the “deprecated” ones were the way to go, now and forward.
  • binaryturtlean hour ago
    So I guess ram disks are deprecated too? (AFAIR hdiutil was the only way to create them)
    • plorkyeran13 minutes ago
      This is one of the things the new `diskutil image` subcommand mentioned in the article supports: `diskutil image attach ram://${size}m`.
  • jstsch2 hours ago
    Was the error visible somewhere through Console.app? This is a major annoyance for me with Cocoa/AppKit apps that basically have terminal usage secondary.
  • lukeifyan hour ago
    > Yes, Apple requested an iOS sysdiagnose for a macOS bug

    Dealing with Apple's labyrinth maze that is Radar/Feedback is an exhausting nightmare, honestly. It leaves users intentionally blind as to the state of any FB's they raise, and (presumably unintentionally) gaslights users who attempt to improve the state of Apple's declining software products by repeatedly asking them for spindumps/sysdiagnoses that will subsequently either be ignored (sometimes for years), or re-requested in a future release.

    I gave up attempting to engage with it years ago. Apple don't want technical feedback unless it's P1 security.

    • kibwen3 minutes ago
      It's just not worth it for individuals to volunteer their time for the benefit of the world's most valuable company.
  • delducaan hour ago
    Rosseta too
  • user192822 hours ago
    I read this as hidutil and had a mini heart attack.
  • pudgywalsh2 hours ago
    Pepperidge Farm remembers when they removed the Telnet client (and ntpd, and a half dozen other things) from the OS and didn't warn anyone.
  • select12 hours ago
    Totally normal. March of progress. Old stuff goes away.
    • KlayLay25 minutes ago
      diskutil is for disks (e.g., volumes) while hdiutil is for disk images ("file system as a file"). They're not two versions of the same thing, so it doesn't make sense to dub deprecating hdiutil as "progress."
    • doodlesdevan hour ago
      If diskutil actually did everything OP looks for that was available in hdiutil, that's correct. If you read the post though, you'll see that diskutil has many limitations compared to its predecessor.
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      • bigyabai2 hours ago
        I don't think they're wrong. Apple is very open about their desire to depreciate legacy tech like OpenGL and HFS to promote proprietary alternatives.

        There's a perennial churn of "Apple depreciated my favorite feature!" (I used to be one of them) and most of those people (including myself) eventually accept an alternative.

        • fragmedean hour ago
          It's not like ifconfig and sysvinit are well supported in Linux these days. I mean, you can, but let's not pretend that things never ever change (eg systemd and Wayland) on Linux either. Can I get non-interger display scaling yet?
          • sunshowersan hour ago
            > Can I get non-interger display scaling yet?

            I'm using 1.25 scale on Niri + DMS right now, on a dual 4k monitor (G9 57) at 240Hz. Probably the most demanding single monitor setup right now.