Re: PowerPlant Discontinued

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From: bolsinga
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 06:10

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<jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote:

>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.

Do you have any documenting evidence of this assertation?

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