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

[curtispd@xxxxxxxxxx (Curtis d\'Entremont)]

Apparently the data collection folks are considering supporting OS X:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=68111

Feel free to add yourself to the CC list and voice support for it.

Thanks,
Curt

Rob Williams wrote:

> 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?