I'll note that a lot of the Diamondback work we're doing is expressly to try
and make this bringup easier, though it is hard to maintain compatible with
Apple's development choices.

The new rx stacks moves the wx dependencies out of ROS that are so
problematic on OS X -- we've also announced that we're switching the Qt in
the future, as wx seems to not have its act together anymore.

We've also moved visualization_msgs into common_msgs, which should reduce
the pollution of "visualization_common" within the stack dependency chain.
Also, future versions of RViz (not Diamondback, but possible E-turtle), will
be Qt based.

The last change we're hoping to make is to switch all of the Python-related
dependencies on OS X to use the builtin Python interpreter and
easy_install/pip. Originally we had brought things up to be compatible with
10.4 and 10.5. If we drop 10.4 support, we no longer need to depend on
Macports for Python, which I think is a fairly big win given the additional
headaches we've had there.

 - Ken

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:58 AM, <DRamachandran@hra.com> wrote:

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>  *Gonçalo Cabrita <goncabrita@gmail.com>*
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> 11/04/2010 05:03 AM
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> Re: [ros-users] ROS Tutorial under OSX 10.6
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> Plz Brian, get annoyed soon! I miss working on Xcode so much :D
>
> Gonçalo Cabrita
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> +1.
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> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Brian Gerkey <*gerkey@willowgarage.com*<gerkey@willowgarage.com>>
> wrote:
> 2010/11/4 Gonçalo Cabrita <*goncabrita@gmail.com* <goncabrita@gmail.com>>:
> > I myself am a Mac OS X user running dual boot with Ubuntu 10.04 in order
> to
> > run ROS smoothly.
> > I see a lot of discussion regarding running ROS on OS X 10.6, so my
> question
> > is, has anyone successfully installed and used ROS without loosing
> > functionality on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard?
>
> I haven't.  Many things were working well on 10.5, including rx* and
> rviz.  Things pretty much went to hell when I upgraded to 10.6.  I'm
> now dual-booting my laptop into Ubuntu for ROS development.  That will
> eventually annoy me enough to figure out how to get things going on
> 10.6.
>
>        brian.
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