on 2/20/06 8:54 AM, William Squires at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While they probably already do (for QT/iTunes), it's doubtful that > it'd be in their best interests to release a version of gcc/XCode for a > general Win32 compile. They probably have a license with MetroWerks for > continued support of CodeWarrior for this purpose. At best, you'd have > to be premier member of ADC. > It's far more likely that they'll make an XCode IDE that runs on > Win32 that produces universal binaries for OS X Intel, for release to > major software houses (Quark, Aspyr, Adobe, MS, EA Games, etc...), > possibly with conditional compile constants like in RB. >
I think Apple has transitioned away from building anything with CodeWarrior. It's been said on the Carbon mailing by Apple Engineers that is it nearly impossible to find a copy in house. Software vendors that already have Mac/Windows development systems in place would have little interest in binding themselves tighter to Apple. You have to remember that Apple is in the business of selling hardware, new hardware. Their internal decision making is focused on this and it is often causes issues for developers that need to deploy on older systems. It can be simple things. For example, you can't use gcc 4.x to deploy on systems older than 10.3.9 because Apple chose to have the standard library as shared library instead of a static library and 10.3.9 is the oldest system that it is deployed on. They still supply gcc 3.3 but for how long? Another example. We've been told recently that we can't ship QT 6.x any more even though it is the newest version of QT that runs on pre-OS X and Windows 98/ME (Yes people running these machines still buy software, not as much as they used to but there is a market). Apple is rarely your friend. Sometimes a partner, but that's about it. Chris _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
