Support for Mac OS X

[mitar]

Please support Mac OS X.

[kentonv]

Sorry but this isn't directly possible with the current design. meteor-spk calls the spk tool, which is part of Sandstorm, which runs on Linux. The dev command in particular needs to talk to your local Sandstorm server and does all kinds of Linux-specific stuff.

We have some thoughts about a completely different tool design where the app could actually run in dev mode remotely, possibly even on a different OS. But, this is a long ways off.

[mitar]

Hm, just to convert a Meteor app you need spk?

[kentonv]

Yes, you need the spk tool to build spks (Sandstorm package files)...

[mitar]

Aha. I wanted just to convert Meteor app and then user Travis CI for building spk on every push to master branch of my app. Is this not a good idea?

[kentonv]

Arguably for the specific purpose of spk pack (not spk dev), it shouldn't be Linux-dependent. We might be able to make that much work on OSX. Could you file a bug against Sandstorm asking that basic spk commands (i.e. not dev) be made to work on other platforms? Note that it might still require some cleanup on our part since a lot of our code simply assumes Linux.

[kentonv]

Although it occurs to me that usually spk dev cannot work on non-Linux because it pulls in binaries and libraries from you local system and expects those to be Linux. It's really only in the case of meteor-spk that this makes any sense, because meteor-spk just so happens to come with a complete binary/library bundle so that binaries from the system aren't needed...

[mitar]

Although it occurs to me that usually spk dev cannot work on non-Linux because it pulls in binaries and libraries from you local system and expects those to be Linux.

I would be OK if that has to be some GNU tools I have to install with brew as a requirement.

[kentonv]

I would be OK if that has to be some GNU tools I have to install with brew as a requirement.

Sorry, that won't work, because these binaries are being put into the package, and the package ultimately runs on Linux (inside Sandstorm).

[mitar]

Could it be made so that it uses vagrant-spk?

[zarvox]

There is already a meteor stack for vagrant-spk. For example, the Rocket.Chat developers have packaged Rocket.Chat from an OSX machine with vagrant-spk.

[mitar]

Huh, that would be great to be more known. Especially above @kentonv gave a feeling that this is not possible. At that time I didn't know of existence of vagrant-spk. I Googled "Meteor Sandstorm" and got to this package. It would be great to have some resources/references how to do it from Mac OS X.