On Apr 11, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
On 4/11/06, Jason Essington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
3) Since GT.M requires an existing set of binaries to compile the
source, sanchez would have to release binaries for OS X before anyone
will be able to build GT.M on OS X.
Can you expand on this some more. Is GT.M not fully open source?
I.e. some key part of the compile cycle is controlled by Sanchez?
Have you worked on compiling GT.M before?
well, from the GT.M readme:
2. Define an environment variable 'gtm_curpro' to point to the full
path of the prior GT.M installation.
Download and install GT.M binary distribution from SourceForge if
you do not have
GT.M installed already. The build procedure needs an existing
GT.M mumps installed
on the machine.
Since all of my machines are OS X, I've only been able to get as far
as downloading the source.
I had a discussion with Bhaskar about a year ago and they were not
entirely adverse to the idea of releasing an OS X version, but there
would need to be some financial incentive for them to do so. And
since OS X is not an entirely Open Source OS, they were not inclined
to absorb the development cost as the did for Linux.
With OS X now running on intel and the state of virtualization
software where it is, I think that hosting linux on OS X (or even on
windows for that matter) is not completely out of the realm of
reasonable. There is no need to have all of the gui parts of linux
taking up space an processor cycles, so it could be reasonably
lightweight and targeted at simply running GT.M
5) 3 & 4 are MOOT! just install parallels virtualization software
http://www.parallels.com/download/ then install your favorite flavor
of linux in a Virtual Machine running on OS X (It runs at nearly
native speed). So, GT.M runs on linux which is running in a VM on
MacOS X. Of course then Osirix runs since OS X is the host OS, and
life is good
I have heard many people talking about this. What kind of
communication could occur between the Osirix running on the Mac side
and GT.M running in its own little VM world? I guess they could send
each other messages via the file system etc, but seems klunky.
Well, there is obviously the filesystem route, but since all the OS's
are running on the same machine, host based port communication would
also be possible.
-jason
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