This hasn't been confirmed has it? The site simply says "temporarily unavailable." I would be surprised if they stopped printing CD's and manuals for $400 a pop. Tim
"Marcelo van Kampen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] And just another reminder... Metrowerks has discontinued codewarrior. Just check the messages history on this list Marcelo On 4/22/05, Michael Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eclipse is very much production-ready. I've been using it for non-Palm OS > Java and C++ development for some time now and it is by far my favorite > IDE. > I have used it and MetroWorks CodeWarrior for PalmOS development, and I > haven't found the "killer feature" in either product that would make one > better than the other (except, of course, for price). > > I hope I don't start any religious wars here, but I recently switched to > SatelliteForms for a lot of PalmOS development. You're using a "runtime > environment" and a BASIC-like language and you don't have instant access > to > the entire PalmOS (since it is mediated by the runtime engine), but you > can > develop many apps MUCH faster with it than by writing in C or C++. A > short > time ago I wouldn't have recommended it AT ALL because it used to be > licensed > such that you had to pay *per deployment*. In other words, you had to pay > for a license for each handheld your app *runs* on. The program was > recently > acquired by a Canadian company it is is now a per-developer license and > you > can redistribute the the runtime engine without a license fee. > > Seriously, if writing a stable app quickly is your goal, check out > SatelliteForms. I'm developing a custom app for a single business and > SatelliteForms has shaved months (and I mean MONTHS) off my development > time. > If you're writing an "enterprise app" I'd seriously consider it. If you > are > writing an app for distribution to the general PalmOS community, I guess > I'd > stick with traditional "native" development. > > For C/C++ Palm development I use the Eclipse based toolset. But then I'm > used > to it for Java and C++ non-Palm development. YMMV. Since it is free to > download and use, give it a try and see what you think. (It also has > support > for Cobalt, but since we can't seem to expect any Cobalt *hardware* > anytime > soon, I guess that still isn't a "killer" reason to choose it.) > > On Friday 22 April 2005 6:41 pm, Stephen Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am new to Palm development and I was wondering which IDE you > > recommend, > > MetroWorks or Eclipse? What are the advantages/disadvantages of each? Is > > the Eclipse IDE ready for real production use? > > > > Thanks! > > Stephen > > -- > Michael Schwarz > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
