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In article <8291315.0108100924.43ca6140@posting.google.com>,
 crustyrob@mac.com (Robert McCullough) wrote:

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the first non-beta version of
>CodeWarrior 6 released at WWDC in May of this year?

No,  CodeWarrior 6 was released in June of 2000  although a pre-release 
version of it was available of at WWDC in 2000.

Because there had been 2 major renovations of OS X since CodeWarrior 6 
was released we had a Early Access release of CodeWarrior 7 which worked 
on OS X and made this available.  

> And now less than
>4 months after its release, we have to pay another $250/350 to upgrade
>to v7? Am I the only one who thinks this is a little strange? I could
>understand charging for the upgrade if we had a working product for a
>full year, but in many ways, even the official release of v6 seems
>like a beta. In fact we've had to move to 7EA just to debug under OS X
>(as most of you know, debugging under OS X with v6 is an exercise in
>frustration).

CodeWarrior 6 targeted Carbon development, and allowed people to build 
code for OS X relatively easily.   CodeWarrior 6 was developed on the 
Developers Preview release of OS X.  after CodeWarrior 6 was released 
Apple released a public release and then a final release and now 4 
smaller updates to the final release.    Each and everyone of these 
Major updates had a significant impact on CodeWarrior.   

CodeWarrior 6 has always done exactly what it was advertised to do.   
That is allow you to easily port applications to OS X using the Carbon 
API.    It did this extremely well and with very little bug reports when 
ran on OS 8.6 and  9.x     

CodeWarrior 7 is much more mature it will run on OS X and allow you to 
develop on OS X.  It is still not perfect on OS X there are Mach-O tools 
that need to be fixed.  There is a problem with long file names that was 
not anticipated as well as the i/o kit  But still this is a major 
enahncement to CodeWarrior and is not a bug fix or just a simple upgrade 
to CodeWarrior 6.   

>I'm not complaining about the problems with CodeWarrior -- I
>understand it must have been a difficult task getting it to work at
>all under OS X. And I'm willing to work around the difficulties in
>order to do development under OS X. But as a regular customer of
>Metrowerks since the bronze/gold days, I personally think that
>charging a $250/350 upgrade to CodeWarrior 6 owners seems a bit
>excessive. Anyway, that's one man's opinion...

I respect this and when I first saw the price increase I too was 
shocked.  But once I thought about it, the work that has went into this 
and all the added advantages I settled back and understood.   I hope you 
see this too and the distinction between developing for OS X and 
developing on OS X.

Ron

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