Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Elliott Baron
On 04/14/2010 03:58 PM, Charley Wang wrote: As a quick summary of supported OSes... Valgrind: (various architectures)Linux, X86/Darwin (Mac OS X) I would be interested to see if a Mac OSX user has any difficulties running the plugins. I don't see there being too many challenges, considerin

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Charley Wang
- "Andrew Overholt" wrote: > I guess the question is whether or not tools like Valgrind exist on > HP-UX. If we go with John's suggestion of not restricting to > increase > potential user base, and we know of the existence of underlying tools > (ex. Valgrind, OProfile, SystemTap, LTTng) on s

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Overholt
> Is there a difference between "Linux" and "Unix" when we says "Linux Only" ? The valid values for a feature's OS filter can be seen by clicking on "Browse ..." next to the Operating System box in a feature.xml editor. There's: aix, hpux, linux, macosx, qnx, solaris, win32 I guess the question

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread William Bourque
Is there a difference between "Linux" and "Unix" when we says "Linux Only" ? Because for what I see, most of our features would work on most non-linux Unix (like Solaris) as well, since some others like LTTng might not. So for what I see there is like "Work on all Unixes with corect tools install

Re: [linuxtools-dev] eclipse plug-in for Linux perf tool

2010-04-14 Thread Charley Wang
Hi Thavidu, I just committed a quick change to oprofile.psf in the releng trunk. It should pull in the correct version of the cdt test plugin and get rid of the errors you were seeing in the oprofile tests. It's pulling CDT 6.0.2. Feel free to hop on IRC (#eclipse or #eclipse-linux on freenode) i

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Overholt
* Charley Wang [2010-04-14 09:49]: > > - "Andrew Overholt" wrote: > > > * Jeff Johnston [2010-04-13 18:01]: > > > IMO, the answer is to document it properly > > > > Please make sure this happens. I've opened a bug to track this: > > > > 309117: Document Autotools plugin usage on Windo

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Charley Wang
- "Andrew Overholt" wrote: > * Jeff Johnston [2010-04-13 18:01]: > > IMO, the answer is to document it properly > > Please make sure this happens. I've opened a bug to track this: > > 309117: Document Autotools plugin usage on Windows > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Charley Wang
- "Jeff Johnston" wrote: > > User expectations are not a problem if we document it as untested and > officially unsupported on the other platforms. Our group is called > "Linux Tools" and they have to type it in just to use the update site > so > it shouldn't be any surprise to a user that

[linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Overholt
* Anithra P Janakiraman [2010-04-14 01:59]: > SystemTap is definitely Linux-only I've made it so in SVN. Thanks. Andrew ___ linuxtools-dev mailing list linuxtools-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxtools-dev

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Overholt
* John Arthorne [2010-04-14 09:26]: > Just to chime in with an outside opinion, I think it's better to err on the > side of allowing these features to be installed anywhere unless they really > will only ever run on linux (i.e., non-optional dependency on bundles with > Linux-specific native code)

[linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Overholt
* Xavier RAYNAUD [2010-04-14 04:29]: > gprof and gcov are *not* linux only. Okay. > It's OK to use these plugins on windows - However, something like > cygwin binutils must be in PATH. It's issues like this we should _definitely_ ensure are documented. I've opened these bugs to get GProf and GC

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread John Arthorne
On 04/13/2010 04:39 PM, Andrew Overholt wrote: > My concern is user expectations. If we just leave it in there for all > OSes, people will assume it's been well-tested on all OSes. I'm > inclined to restrict it to Linux-only for now and request testing on > other operating systems. I'm willing t

[linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Overholt
* Jeff Johnston [2010-04-13 18:01]: > IMO, the answer is to document it properly Please make sure this happens. I've opened a bug to track this: 309117: Document Autotools plugin usage on Windows https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=309117 Andrew __

[linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Overholt
With Helios, one doesn't have to enter any update site and they will see "Autotools support for CDT (Incubation)" under the "Programming Languages" category. I'm okay leaving autotools without an OS filter as I agree that Cygwin/MinGW users will likely know issues involved. And if not, it's a gre

[linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-14 Thread Xavier RAYNAUD
Hi, gprof and gcov are *not* linux only. It's OK to use these plugins on windows - However, something like cygwin binutils must be in PATH. Xavier Le 13/04/2010 21:20, Andrew Overholt a écrit : Hi, A few of our features will not function on non-Linux (or maybe non-Unix) OSes. I'd like to e