[news.eclipse.tools.hyades] Re: Mac OS X Support?

[Rob Williams <robwms63@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Curtis. Actually, not being able to collect on OS X is a drag, 
but I would still like to use Hyades with some of our Solaris and Linux 
boxes. Was wondering if that would work, so thanks.

Curtis d'Entremont wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> The Hyades UI should work reasonably well in OS X, I tested it a while 
> ago, although it is not officially supported. However, the data 
> collector hasn't been ported to the BSDs or Darwin yet, so you can only 
> collect profiling data from another machine running a supported 
> platform. I know that FreeBSD has a Linux binary compatibility layer, so 
> this may also be the case with Darwin. I've never actually tried it, but 
> it just might work.
>
> Thanks,
> Curt
>
> Rob Williams wrote:
>
> > Looked around. It seems that because there is no OS X data collector, 
> > there is no real platform support?