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

[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

[linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-13 Thread Anithra P Janakiraman
On 04/14/2010 12:50 AM, Andrew Overholt wrote: Hi, Can the feature owners please tell me if their functionality will work on non-Linux OSes? Since many of us are only testing on Linux, I'd rather be conservative and ensure that the stuff we're shipping isn't exposed to an audience who will only

[linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-13 Thread Jeff Johnston
On 04/13/2010 04:39 PM, Andrew Overholt wrote: * Jeff Johnston [2010-04-13 16:29]: Libhover and ChangeLog are OS-independent. Okay, thanks. Autotools is a bit trickier. It should work where there the autotool and sh command exists (the Unix OSes plus Windows when Cygwin or MingW is set up)

[linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-13 Thread Andrew Overholt
* Jeff Johnston [2010-04-13 16:29]: > Libhover and ChangeLog are OS-independent. Okay, thanks. > Autotools is a bit trickier. It should work where there the > autotool and sh command exists (the Unix OSes plus Windows when > Cygwin or MingW is set up). Do we want to restrict it and wait for >

[linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

2010-04-13 Thread Jeff Johnston
On 04/13/2010 03:20 PM, Andrew Overholt wrote: Hi, A few of our features will not function on non-Linux (or maybe non-Unix) OSes. I'd like to ensure that these features are not visible if one views our update site from such an OS. I filed a bug to track this: 308661: Add OS filter to all f