I can definitely empathize with you about the Macports and 32-bit/64-bit issues. In fact, most of the stuff in the wiki is about making ROS and Macports play nice, which currently means universal variants and building ROS completely 32-bit. My friend John got RViz working with the built-in wx and python that come from Apple, but I want to say there were some issues. I would like to cut the Macports cord, but there are many, many dependencies that must be fulfilled at the moment. I would love to see something similar to fink be successful again, it never made sense to me why binary distribution wouldn't work great on OS X. I think another way ROS could be much more OS X compatible would be to move away from wx (Carbon dependency drives many 32-bit issues). I know that moving to Qt was discussed at some point, and I really think that would be a worth wild move, because I have been very impressed with the Qt framework's portability and consistency, though I recognize the amount of effort involved in such a move. I am interested to see if the changes in rosbuild2 and rosdep will ease these concerns as well. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William Woodall Graduate Software Engineering Auburn University w@auburn.edu wjwwood@gmail.com williamjwoodall.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Ken Conley wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:53 PM, William Woodall > wrote: > > I made one, but I think on the ros.org wiki might be better in the end, > also > > most of the patches are already in tickets and in the upstream svn for > ros. > > This is great work and thanks for taking the time to also document + > send nice, concise patches. I'm looking forward to better support in > Electric for OS X. > > Part of the challenge with OS X has been Macports, which has been a > moving target (as has the 32-bit -> 64-bit nastiness). Our OS X > install was originally spec'd back in 10.4 days where the underlying > platform was quite different. I'd be interested in hearing ideas of > how to revamp this (including cutting the Macports cord). I made an > initial investigation into moving the Python libraries off of Macports > and use the builtin Python interpreter, but got hung up on some > integration issues. With some upcoming changes to rosdep those issues > should be easier to solve. > > cheers, > Ken > > > > Thanks, > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > William Woodall > > Graduate Software Engineering > > Auburn University > > w@auburn.edu > > wjwwood@gmail.com > > williamjwoodall.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Serge Stinckwich > > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM, William Woodall > >> wrote: > >> > I don't mind, but I can also give you access to mine so that you can > >> > edit it > >> > if you like, at some point we should probably put this some where > else. > >> > >> Yes i think so. Could you create a ROX repository and move the wiki page > >> here ? > >> We will put also all the patches here also. > >> > >> -- > >> Serge Stinckwich > >> UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam > >> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk > >> http://doesnotunderstand.org/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ros-users mailing list > >> ros-users@code.ros.org > >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ros-users mailing list > > ros-users@code.ros.org > > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >