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

2010-04-19 Thread Elliott Baron
On 04/19/2010 01:55 PM, Charley Wang wrote: Created a small section in the existing wiki page for now: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/Valgrind/User_Guide#Other_Operating_Systems Good luck with exams Elliott! Thank you and great work Charley! I pulled your additions into the doc

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

2010-04-19 Thread Andrew Overholt
* Charley Wang [2010-04-19 13:55]: > > - "Elliott Baron" wrote: > > > > > If you have the time that'd be great. Thanks a lot for trying it out > > Charley! > > Created a small section in the existing wiki page for now: > > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/Valgrind/User_Guide#Oth

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

2010-04-19 Thread Charley Wang
- "Elliott Baron" wrote: > > > If you have the time that'd be great. Thanks a lot for trying it out > Charley! Created a small section in the existing wiki page for now: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/Valgrind/User_Guide#Other_Operating_Systems Andrew -- should this informatio

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

2010-04-15 Thread Elliott Baron
On 04/15/2010 03:09 PM, Charley Wang wrote: - "Elliott Baron" wrote: 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, considering it does provide a UNIX environment. It works! It's a bit fiddly.

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

2010-04-15 Thread Charley Wang
- "Elliott Baron" wrote: > 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, > considering it does provide a UNIX environment. It works! It's a bit fiddly. Have to apply some patches to the Valgrind sour

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

2010-04-15 Thread Charley Wang
- "Elliott Baron" wrote: > 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

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] 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

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)

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