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Article #68Re: CodeWarrior as an IDE, not as a Compiler
From: Alex Curylo
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:59
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:59
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jonhoyle@mac.com at jonhoyle@mac.com wrote on 6/20/05 2:50 PM:
> But if Metrowerks simply modified their IDE to work with gcc (perhaps
> by creating wrappers around the gcc compilers so as to conform to
> CodeWarrior's Compiler Plugin API), they could sell the CodeWarrior IDE
> rather cheaply (say, $100-$150) and not have to spend any money
> developing compiler updates. As the gcc compilers are free, they
> should be easily dropped into CodeWarrior to work. We would then be
> able to build for PPC and x86 again, and not be out of sync with Xcode.
>
> If this became the new business model, I think it would have a great
> chance of success.
Um, I actually own the Metrowerks product you describe. You even got the
retail price spot on at $150.
... it's CodeWarrior for *Linux*.
Reviews were pretty much 100% favorable, sales were for all practical
purposes nonexistent; it never got updated past the initial release.
So you'd have to append to the above a plausible reason that the exact same
strategy that failed catastrophically for Linux would have dramatically
different results when tried for OS X.
--
Alex Curylo -- alex@alexcurylo.com -- http://www.alexcurylo.com/
"It's not that I'm ENCOURAGING drug use ...
I'm just saying it can do wonders for the ol' writers block."
-- Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
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