Any news on the beta?
Christian Platt
Am 24.02.2006 um 08:24 schrieb Phil Wade:
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. ;)
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