On Mar 25, 2006, at 12:35 AM, Scott Wyatt wrote:
Tony Spencer wrote:
Well this doesn't make sense. The big boys already very clearly
stated that they would go UB when they did their next version
upgrade, and not before. This is probably why Apple unusually
released MacIntel on consumer machines first rather than high-end. It
still doesn't explain why they left-fielded everyone with a six
months early release, and I can't see this rushing MS, Adobe, Quark
etc.
Quark's current beta is already UB. Supposedly, it is finally a
product that can outshine InDesign again. We'll have to see -- I
haven't seen Quark in at least four years, now. The MacBU team is
likely to ship a UB version of Office when the Windows upgrade ships.
Again, not a problem. Only Adobe is stuck with a huge CW albatross.
They should have been dealing with that three years ago.
And Apple has made clear that the "Big Boys" aren't in any danger of
being pulled from promotion on either Web or retail shelf space.
Considering how quickly smaller companies had UB applications in the
wild, I don't think this is an issue outside of the CodeWarrior and RB
developers.
Already, FreePascal, GNU Pascal, Eiffel, Scheme, and a number of other
compilers support UB development. In fact, they have for some time. If
you are a CW junkie, Apple has done a pretty decent job providing
tools for converting to Xcode. Adobe's complaints are with version
control and huge project libraries, which I think Apple will have to
address.
Since RB is/was a CW project I suspect they could be running into many
of the same issues Adobe is with XCode and large projects
For another perspective on why moving to UB's can be a challenge see
http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2006/03/macintosh_and_t.html
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