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>From: John Merrill <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Rhode Island >Keywords: 200211221320.gAMDKk412421 MacOS-X Hi John, >I am intrigued by the possibility of running Unidata packages under >Apple Macintosh OS X. So are a number of other people. The good news is that some things already run there. >I can see that OS X is not listed in the Platform Support table. That is correct. A platform's adoption for support is not something that is done lightly. In fact, both the User and Policy Committees usually have strong, if not overriding, input into such a decision. >My >initial interest is in GEMPAK. We've almost always been able to use >Binary distributions for the Solaris equipment we've used. Should we be >tempted to venture off into the wilderness of porting software to a >new-ish Unix platform, we'd >value any comments you might have heard about, or direction on where >we'd hear informative >exchanges on, issues surrounding use of this system. Thanks. I can tell you that I have already made a couple of low level attempts to get McIDAS working under MacOS-X. I have one site that is very eager for such a port (NASA Langley). Chiz is also interested in the issues in getting GEMPAK to work there, but I don't know what his timeframe is. One of our problems with MacOS-X is that the two machines we have of this type at the UPC are portables that travel home with folks pretty much on a daily basis. I will chat with Chiz today to see what his plans for GEMPAK on MacOS-X are, and I will get back to you with any information I can put together. Cheers, Tom