On 16/10/19 8:51 am, Peter Dufault wrote: >> On Oct 14, 2019, at 13:49 , Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: >> >> On 11/10/19 5:23 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote: >>> Hello Chris, >>> >>> I know that you don't like homebrew based solutions on macOS. >> >> I do not mind homebrew or macports however for RTEMS is not practical to >> support >> them. > > I'm a MacOS user and lapsed *BSD committer. The majority of MacOS users > working with RTEMS will have a VM that they will use for RTEMS development.
I do not use a VM on MacOS and much prefer to develop and run my RTEMS development as a native environment. I am currently traveling with a Mac laptop and working on things natively without the need to start, stop and have a resource hungry VM spinning away all the time. My battery life is reasonably good and the laptop is nice and responsive. I think maintaining a VM for me on a Mac is more work than maintaining RTEMS on MacOS for the project :) > The homebrew and macports solutions to obtain compatible packages only > complicate the issue. How many Mac users who are working on RTEMS can't work > in a VM running CentOS, and how many don't have a machine that allows that? > Let me know if I'm wrong. I do not know if are wrong and what you suggest is a reasonable and valid way for some users to work with RTEMS but I do not think having it as the recommended option is where we should head. I for one would not want to keep such a VM around to test and make sure. > This is different from e.g. mingw support, where I think the tools need to > work as plug-ins. I know of at least one person who runs CentOS in a VM on Windows as their development environment. I think their VM disk image corrupted recently, I hope they had a back up one of the environments or both or something. I am sure we can resolve the issue of Python3 on MacOS. There are solutions, we just need to review the options and select the one that best suites our needs. Chris _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/users
