On 24.11.2005 A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Why is that?
It's not like Finale needs to know if the host is dual or single
processor. The only app needs to know if dual proc would be something
like heavy DSP which process needs to be divided from main host app
process. Finale isn't that kind of app.
I think you misunderstood me: I didn't mean dual-processor in the sense
that there are two cpus of the same kind in one machine, I meant a
System software that runs on both PPC and Intel.
Any app that will have problem on porting to Intel proc is ones coded
with CodeWarrior, a 3rd party Dev Tool, while Apple has been offering
much better env, Xcode since the early OSX era. It is easy for me to
say they should had rewritten their app from ground up when Xcode was
introduced, and I do fully understand it will cost them a lot in R&D,
but Apple's intention was clear back then.
But was it foreseeable that Codewarrior would be completely obsolete so
soon? I don't know, I am not a programmer, nor do I know how much longer
it would have taken them to go OS X if they had gone XCode at the same time.
It has been my understanding that CodeWarrior was, for a long time, the
environment of choice if you wanted to develop dual-platform apps that
ran on Win and Mac. Now Apple comes along and says, if you develop for
Mac use XCode. Fair enough from their point of view, but a big step for
an old code base like Finale, no?
Johannes
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