Re: PowerPlant Discontinued

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From: jonhoyle
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:49

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Alex Curylo wrote:
> in article mwron-7D95F3.10003518042005@news.newsguy.com, MW Ron at
> mwron@metrowerks.com wrote on 4/18/05 7:00 AM:
>
> > PowerPlantXP the  cross platform version was discontinued
>
> Well, in that case, how about releasing the source to it as an
unsupported
> download? Plenty of folks I'm sure would find that useful for
projects that
> aren't worth the investment for the commercial version, me for
starters!

Because they did not write PowerPlant for Windows: they licensed the
porting library Mac2Win from Altura and compiled it that way.  Mac2Win
is an older porting technology that essentially implemented the Mac API
(Classic and some parts of Carbon) in Windows.  Unfortunately, the
latest version of PowerPlant that Altura supported in their downloads
was the Classic version, not the Carbon version.  Presumably,
Metrowerks used a lot of #ifdef's or separate brnaches or something to
get around this problem; but it seems a moot point now.

As Metrowerks was one of the largest customers Altura had left, I doubt
that Mac2Win will have much further viability once CodeWarrior 10 is
released.

Jonathan Hoyle

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