ll wrote:
CodeWarrior for Palm is an _old_ product, I grant you. When I used it first (
'96 I believe ) it was a crappy port of a Mac program that tried to run a Mac
IDE on a PC. It sucked. As did the next version, and the next.
CW Palm is going to die, I agree with you.
Metrowerks recently followed the roadmap and CW is going to CW 10 but CW
for Palm still frozen in 9.3.
In 2005 - Stable ?:
Yes, it is - although, for example, my 9.2 regularly crashes, loses the
cursor, causes internal compiler errors for some simple constructs, this does
not happen often enough to be painful. IMHO
There is small bugs, sometimes it crashes, sometimes it loses the cursor
but from the point of view of a developer is still stable and mature:
work very good with c++, support exceptions, support RTTI, etc..
In 2005 - Mature ?:
No, it is, IMHO, not. One still cannot easily build a 68K project that calls ARM code and one cannot debug that project when one does manage to build it. One still cannot AFAIK, build an ARM-only program. Too many minor parts of the IDE are wrong or broken, and stay that way:
It does not remember the directory you were last using.
yes you can: just press Ctrl + Shift + B
Try selecting the name of the file you are working on from the Path: field in
the editor window - you cannot.
just select it and press Ctrl + D
Try resizing the columns in the project window - you can't. Try sorting them
by clicking on the column header - it's broke.
there is a small bug here. try maximize and minimize the window again so
it works.
Try switching to the compile errors window from the Window menu - it's not
there.
use keys: press ctrl-tab several times
Try passing macros via the command line - you can't.
I don't know, but the command line tool is very complete. I know that
you can for example call a compile from there.
One has to reload a file to get it into version control after logging in, and
lots of version control functionality just isn't there.
Help files refer to Old versions of the IDE and old SDKs.
etc. etc.
In other words, I will not miss CodeWarrior for Palm. But, it seems that there
is nowhere to go from here!
I agree with you that the future of CW 9.3 is very dark from now, but it
is a nice tool if you give it a chance.
Erico
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