[Mrtrix-discussion] Mac compatibility for future releases?

[Donald Tournier]

Hi Nyoman,

The only reason there wasn't Mac support till now is that the required
versions of the GTK dependencies weren't readily available for this
platform till recently. Now that they can be installed relatively easily,
any new code written for Unix/Linux should work just as well on Mac - in
fact, Macs are Unix systems at heart, so it's probably easier to maintain
compatibility with that platform than with the Windows platform (only other
issue being keyboard shortcuts - Macs do like to be different...).

So I can't think of any reason why we would decide to drop Mac support.
That said, the development is all done on GNU/Linux, so there is the
possibility of bugs specific to the Mac version appearing in a release
version - but then, as long as someone reports the problem, we'll do our
best to provide a fix for it, so it should only be a transient problem.

Cheers,

Donald.


On 24 February 2012 14:32, Nyoman Kurniawan
<nyoman.kurniawan at cai.uq.edu.au>wrote:

> Hi Donald,
> Could you tell us if future releases of Mrtrix will still be Mac
> compatible?
> Or is there any preferred Unix that would always be supported ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Nyoman
>
>
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