Is Snow Dots platform-dependent?

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Snow Dots is developed on OS X.  But, since in only depends on Matlab,
Tower of Psych, and Psychtoolbox, which are all available for multiple
platforms, it might run on other platforms as well.

That is, I haven't knowingly introduced any OS X dependencies.

But I haven't tested Snow Dots anywhere else and I don't know if there are
quirks in the Windows or Linux implementations of Matlab or Psychtoolbox
which would break Snow Dots.

It would be interesting to test Snow Dots on these other platforms, and
learn what it would take to make Snow Dots platform-independent.  Is it
already?  Is it close?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Benjamin.Heasly on 17 Nov 2009 at 8:16

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A couple of things probably are platform dependent after all:

 - some singleton classes use hostname to generate file names or UIDs.  There is
probably a windows analog that can be substituted, but I don't know what it 
is...

 - some MEX functions are definitely OS-dependent.

 - some Psychtoolox behaviors are OS-dependent, even though Psychtoolbox is
*available* for several OS.

Original comment by Benjamin.Heasly on 11 Dec 2009 at 5:39

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Original comment by Benjamin.Heasly on 16 Feb 2010 at 10:56

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Original comment by Benjamin.Heasly on 4 Aug 2010 at 6:57

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There are also some Plexon test files which will only run under windows right?

Original comment by ian...@gmail.com on 18 Dec 2010 at 11:06

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This is not really an "issue".  It would be better just to note OS dependencies 
in the list of project components, which is coming up in version 1.0.

Original comment by Benjamin.Heasly on 8 Jan 2012 at 9:48

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