On 21-Jul-05, at 12:59 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:
I agree Mark. It's about the tools and the right tools for the
particular job. Sound's like a Home Improvement one liner, but
hey, that's the deal!
By the way, I also have been a user of TSS products going way back
to Champion Server as well. That's so cool.
I expect we'll see more tools and the tools we know will and should
morph into greater and better things because of Apple's switch to
Intel.
What do you think?
That's a tough call really. I imagine that most (if not all) the
major players will be making the switch, but they won't bother until
it's time. For the most part if your code is decent it's trivial to
port (endianess, some library and framework adjustments) .. or at
least it is for this kind of tool. For other more complicated things
that take advantage of Altivec and the other ppc only stuff it may be
a bit more work. But I honestly don't see many of them making the
jump before the machines are actually _shipping_. Some of the
developers out there with much more complicated applications that are
using advanced features may be at least starting to port some of that
stuff over, but long experience in this industry has told me that no
one who knows what is going on is going to spend long man hours
porting to an un-released OS version .. it's _always_ trouble in
apple's camp.
As for new stuff, maybe, maybe not. If there are larger crowds
attracted because of the move, which I suspect there may well be,
then it may also attract more development to happen, but other than
that I think things will just be business as usual for OSX once the
transition has been made. I don't see a lot of new players jumping
into this game though honestly. HFS is not the nicest filesystem to
be trying to fix up and to build new tools of this sort you would
really have to know what you're doing. As always, Apple's released
documentation for HFS leaves much to be desired.
Lastly, don't hold your breath. The actual transition won't really
happen for a LONG while. I think that Apple's estimates were pretty
aggressive on the changeover. Either way it's going to be messy when
it all starts going down. Even if they can follow what they've
stated (which I think is too aggressive personally) it will be many
years before PPC macs are out of the pipeline IMHO.
Mark
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