Re: PowerPlant Discontinued

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From: jonhoyle
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:46

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Mac2Win was certainly used by Metrowerks at least as far as CodeWarrior
6 (a PowerPlant application), and that fact can be demonstrated by
bringing up the Mac2Win Secret About Box.  Furthermore, Greg Dow made
the following statement in the aforementioned article:

"To port code to Windows, I recommend that people investigate Mac2Win
from Altura Software. The Mac2Win libraries emulate the Mac Toolbox on
Windows. Metrowerks is using these libraries to port portions of the
CodeWarrior environment to Windows."

The latest version of PowerPlant still distributed by Altura was the
last pre-Carbonized version, which would make sense why Metrowerks had
to do some of their own work on this as well lately.  The engineers I
spoke to at WWDC were pretty open about their use of Mac2Win back then.
 Now, I don't doubt that Lattitude was a major part of this porting
process as well, and perhaps in the last couple versions of CodeWarrior
and PowerPlant, most all of Altura was removed.  But to suggest that no
part of Altura was used in the making of PowerPlant for Windows is just
too hard to swallow.

Unless of course Metrowerks had some independent and totally
coincidental reasons for duplicating Altura's Secret About Box.

Jonathan Hoyle

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