Re: [Columba-users] startup errors on OSX

[Frederik D. <ma...@fr...>]

On Mon, June 27, 2005 2:16 am, Himanshu Shukla said:
> Hi guys,
>
> Apologies if this has already been covered, but I couldn't find it.
>
> I have just downloaded Columba 1.0RC3 (the tar.bz2 binary archive) on
> OSX 10.3.9. Trying to start it gives me the following error:
>
> [snip]
>
> netops-138:~/sources/columba-unix-1.0_RC3-bin himanshu$ ./run.sh
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Exception: Platform not supported!
>         at
> org.columba.core.main.Main.addNativeJarsToClasspath(Main.java:133)
>         at org.columba.core.main.Main.main(Main.java:85)
> netops-138:~/sources/columba-unix-1.0_RC3-bin himanshu$
>
> [/snip]
>
> I get a similar error (Platform not supported) if I try to start it
> using the web start. I don't know if this is a config issue, or a java
> issue.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Himanshu
>

Hi Himanshu,

Mark is sadly correct. We didn't add a sane fall-back when using OS X in
this version.

Currently, we use JDIC for accessing the systems mime database, trayicon,
opening attachments and opening urls in external webbrowser. OSX support
only includes the later two.

Right now, its planned to have a work-around in place for the 1.0 release.
We are going to publish testing snapshots which will showcase this. So,
stay tuned and give them a try!

Cheers,
-Frederik