On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:39:29 -0400, John Siracusa wrote:
>As one of the few rabid Mac users on this list, let me just say that I
>personally have no problem with classic Mac OS support being totally dropped
>from Parrot if it'll get stuff out the door sooner :) Classic Mac OS is
>(somewhat sadly) a dead OS at this point. By the time Parrot is "done",
>Apple will probably be shipping hardware that won't even *boot* classic Mac
>OS outside of a virtual machine in OS X.
I disagree. OS X is but slowly catching on. You may drop 68k support if
you want, but please don't drop MacOS 8.x/9.x for PPC. Those Macs aren't
dead yet, and most of them will never be "upgraded" to OS X.
But I am not happy of having to use a proprietary mechanism for building
things.
--
Bart.
