Support for macOS

[wjkaufman]

I'm using macOS (Catalina Version 10.15.6) as my main development environment, and it would be great to use Reverb on this OS.

[alaterre]

Upvote this! I'm working on mac as well, I have a DockerFile but it's really not as easy to develop. Same for colab, great but it quickly reaches its limit.

[drozzy]

It would be great if this worked on mac (and even windows?), so that we could run acme on other OSes as well.
Thanks!

[tfboyd]

Docker is your best bet. https://github.com/deepmind/reverb/tree/master/reverb/pip_package

There is a desire to support Mac, but we do not use it internally and finding resources to make it work and then setup the same level of testing vs. "hope" it does not break is not easy. I know not everyone likes Docker but I personally love it because it keeps everything in a nice container (ha ha) and I can move it anywhere with limited issues.

I also know this is frustrating. If someone got it working we likely would try to setup testing. This does come up about once a quarter at our planning meetings. If it was pure python, it would be easy.

[lifeiteng]

@alaterre I have made a pull request #24, can you help me verify it?

[tfboyd]

I will bring this up at our sync tomorrow. Maybe we can provide some support. Your start is exciting.

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[lifeiteng]

@wjkaufman you can try my branch #24

[wookayin]

The PR #24 is continued in #119.

[cemlyn007]

I have got the latest version of Reverb to compile for Mac x86_64 and arm64. I could do an MR if people are interested?

[cemlyn007]

Here you go #128