[erlang-questions] process manager, R16, and 64-bit Macs

[Ngoc Dao]

About the future, what do you think about giving up wxWidgets, and using Nodejs?
There are many GUI libraries for Nodejs right now.


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Patrik Nyblom <pan@REDACTED> wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 11:28 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>>
>> The question about R16 features reminded me that one of the promises of
>> R16 is the removal of Process Manager:
>>
>> "The Pman application has been superseded by the Observer application.
>> Pman will be removed in R16." - http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/pman.html
>>
>> However, Observer does not run at all on 64-bit Macs, because of that
>> platform's lack of support for wxWidgets.  (The other Erlang GUI apps I've
>> tried do run, though the debugger is a bit crash-prone.)  R15B3 seems to
>> report the same "wxWidgets not found, wx will NOT be usable" message.
>
> We're working on using the wxWidgets 2.9 "beta-line" for macs, which would
> fix the 64bit problem (it's cocoa-based). 2.8 is also almost impossible to
> build on mountain lion, so we need to up wxWidgets version on mac anyway.
> Unfortunately we have some rather unpleasant stability problems with 2.9 on
> the mac, so we might need to reconsider...
>>
>>
>> Is there any chance of Pman getting a delay until support is better?  Or
>> is this just the cost of progress?
>
> If we do not have a cross platform wx solution that works for R16, we will
> definitely "think again"!
>>
>>
>> (I'm writing Introducing Erlang for O'Reilly, and need to decide if I'm
>> ripping out the process manager coverage and replacing it, and if I need to
>> keep that coverage around online for customers who happen to use recent
>> Macs.)
>
> Might be a good idea to keep it online...
>>
>>
>> If there's a better place to ask this, please let me know!
>>
> Nope, erlang-questions is the right place :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Cheers,
> /Patrik, OTP
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