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In article <1114505675.634965.190080@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
 "jonhoyle@mac.com" <jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote:

> >> PP for Windows is not necessarily the same implementation as early
> >> CW IDE implementations. Remember when the windows hosted IDE
> >> suddenly started working really nicely compared to before? :)
> 
> 
> Yes, that's a good point.  Still, the Secret About Box thing seems like
> a smoking gun to me.  In the end though it's a moot point as Metrowerks
> is killing the product off.  :-(

I think there is still some confusion here, mostly based on terminology 
and product names.

PowerPlant:
   A C++ source code library for building Mac applications.

Mac2Win:
   A porting library which implements a portion of the Mac Toolbox C API 
on Windows, allowing Mac source code to be recompiled to run on Windows.

PowerPlant for Windows (PowerPlantXP):
   An implementation of the PowerPlant C++ API on Windows, designed to 
help port PowerPlant programs to Windows. This was developed by 
Metrowerks without using Mac2Win.

CW IDE:
   The CodeWarrior integrated development environment, an executable 
program with both Mac and Windows versions. The first versions were 
created using PowerPlant and ran only on Macintosh.
   A Windows version was created (I don't recall exactly when), which 
used Altura's Mac2Win porting library.
   Later Windows versions used "PowerPlant for Windows". I don't know 
the details, but there may have been some versions where both Mac2Win 
and "PowerPlant for Windows" were used.


So, Metrowerks used Altura's Mac2Win to develop some early versions of 
the CodeWarrior IDE for Windows.

However, a separate product, called "PowerPlant for Windows", was 
developed independently by Metrowerks and used for later versions of the 
CodeWarrior IDE for Windows.

-- Greg Dow