Hello htop users! I've been getting lo ts of bug reports of htop on the Mac. Trouble is, people are running a 5-year old codebase, a fork of htop 0.8.2! It was never a strict goal to make it Linux-only; it just happens to be the only platform I run. Some users run it on FreeBSD using an emulation layer which simulates a Linux-like /proc filesystem. I've received and merged small patches to improve this. On the Mac, however, the current situation is a bit different. There are several versions out there, which as far as I can tell are all based on a fork of htop 0.8.2 (which is five years old!), that was implemented ripping out all Linux-specific code and replacing it with Mac-only code. There is nothing wrong with that! The idea of free software is that determined users should be able to do this. The problem is that, due to the way this fork was done, it hasn't kept up with the development and bugfixes of htop over the years. The result is that I keep getting bug reports from Mac users, some of them for very old bugs! Unfortunately, I have very little free time to dedicate to htop development (on Linux, that is!) and making a major port would take me a lot of time. I'm a PhD student in Brazil, so the extra time I have left from academic research is filled with freelance programming job, teaching classes, you know the drill: making ends meet. So I decided to start a fundraiser, so I could pick my own free software project as a freelance programming job. If you use a Mac and would like to have htop supported on this platform, you can allocate my time so I can make the latest version of htop run natively and cleanly on Mac terminals. https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/554-mac-os-x-support-in-the-official-htop-1-x-tree The idea is to write an OS abstraction layer, which will make it also easier to port it to other operating systems. Don't use a Mac? Any help spreading the word about this fundraiser is also most welcome! Thank you! -- Hisham -------------------------------- htop mailing list Project website: http://hisham.hm/htop/ List options (unsubscribe, etc:) //www.freelists.org/list/htop/ --------------------------------