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-----Original Message----- From: Phil Wade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Witango !CST Bug > My simple question is: > > why is a corrected version of the software not available. Christian, To your simple question my simple answer... Everyware and/or Pervasive in their wisdom (or lack there of) decided to mix Waste, MacApp, PowerPlant, pascal strings and a few other libraries and frameworks that are no longer supported or updated by the companies that wrote them when the Mac Dev Studio was created. We subsequently carbonised the code so it would run on OS X 10.1. When Apple switched from SGI to HP 64 bit interfaces and made other changes that we know know suited their port to Intel CPUs several of these carbon libraries and frameworks began to exhibit some rather interesting behaviour that meant that we would have to do extensive reworking of the OS X dev studio. This meant rewriting several libraries and parts of the frameworks to make them work, only to then throw the code away. The current OS X dev studio 5.5 is a carbon app and carbon is the last thing on the list Apple is supporting these days so we had no choice but to redevelop the OS X dev studio completely in the short term. When the engineers provided me with the estimate of how long it would take to rewrite the libraries and frameworks it was similar to what it was going to be to get the java based dev studio ready for beta or so I was told. We had decided to redevelop the Dev Studio for all platforms in Java to make it faster to bring bug fixes and features to both platforms rather than keeping it a C/C++ application and having one team for an OS X Dev Studio and one for a Windows Dev Studio. We will also be able to support development on Linux and Solaris. Basically any OS that has a 5.0 JVM will be able to run the Dev Studio. I made the decision to fast track the new dev studio which has a core that is 5.5 compatible and provides a solid foundation on which we are building the 6.0 dev studio. We are running about 4 months behind schedule for the 5.5 core but a public beta will start in the coming weeks and it will be for testing with the 5.5 server and 5.5 feature set. To see where we are today a screen shot of todays build of the new Dev Studio running on OS X 10.4.5 and the 5.0 JVM is here: http://www.witango.com/downloads/DS_5.5x.jpg The team working on the 5.5 compatible features tell me that the core is now feature complete and is running through QA as we speak. I ESTIMATE that the beta will begin APPROXIMATELY at the end of March. Kind Regards Phil P.S. If I get ridiculed for missing the "end of March" date I may have to put my new open nature away. ;) ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
