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@rstad rstad commented Jan 23, 2019

As mentioned in Issues #160 and #140, the list of hosts is not
alphabetized in newer versions of macOS. This change is a feeble
attempt by me to sort the hostsFiles array as it's populated.

It seems to have built successfully on my machine but I'm
extremely new to the world of Obj-C development so it would not
surprise me in the least if this does something in a bad or
easily improved way.

That is, I added a way to Sort (NSSortDescriptor) and call it
immediately after every time we addObject to hostsFiles during
loadFiles in LocalHostsController.m.

Doing this after every addition seems like it might be a poor
choice from a performance perspective. Moreover, it may be
wholly unnecessary when used in some environments where this issue
doesn't present. I went with it anyway because I didn't know how
else to approach this, nor how to conditionally use this logic
only when I know it to be necessary.

As mentioned in Issues 2ndalpha#160 and 2ndalpha#140, the list of hosts is not
alphabetized in newer versions of macOS. This change is a feeble
attempt by me to sort the `hostsFiles` array as it's populated.

It seems to have built successfully on my machine but I'm
extremely new to the world of Obj-C development so it would not
surprise me in the least if this does something in a bad or
easily improved way.

That is, I added a way to Sort (`NSSortDescriptor`) and call it
immediately after every time we `addObject` to `hostsFiles` during
`loadFiles` in LocalHostsController.m.

Doing this after every addition seems like it might be a poor
choice from a performance perspective.  Moreover, it may be
wholly unnecessary when used in some environments where this issue
doesn't present.  I went with it anyway because I didn't know how
else to approach this, nor how to conditionally use this logic
only when I know it to be necessary.
@mkormendy mkormendy mentioned this pull request Nov 4, 2019
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Tested this adjustment with #220 & works – (Local) Hosts files are sorted alphabetically from A-Z 👍

Before ==> After
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