Re: [proteowizard-support] Status/Future of Proteowizard on OS X

[Charles G. <ce...@uw...>]

Hi Parag,

> On May 12, 2015, at 6:38 PM, Parag Mallick <pa...@st...> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the lag - I was trying to figure out how to pull that off.  We actually don’t have any pre-Yosemite computers around here, which is the major issue inhibiting me from futzing with it.  
> 
> Even if I get it to work - the second issue would be having ongoing access to a Pre-Yosemite computer to plug in to the TeamCity.
> 
> If you think this is a sufficiently large community need, I can invest in getting such a computer and in an additional team city license.
> 

Oh, no problem. Thanks for even consiering it! As Bill mentioned, the percentage of Macs running Snow Leopard is only about 10% and declining, so it may not be worth your effort. From personal observation, I think that 10% is enriched for folks doing bioinformatics, but it’s still a very small slice of the pie.

If you were interested in working on this, one low cost solution might be to run Snow Leopard in a VM on your Yosemite machine. Both VMWare and Parallels can do that, the catch being that only Snow Leopard Server can be virtualized, not Snow Leopard Desktop. We used this before we set up a dedicated machine running Snow Leopard. We’re no long running Snow Leopard Server, and I’d be happy to transfer my license and disk to you if it would be helpful.

Thanks again,

Charles