Hi Ron,
You have been kind enough to tell us that Metrowerks is still planning
to update the Mac compiler for CodeWarrior 10, which is great to hear.
The other Metrowerks compilers however have not been so stated.
Is Metrowerks officially killing the Windows and Java compilers? The
Java one has been rumored to die for a while now, with no update since
version 8. However, Metrowerks release CodeWarrior 9 for Windows not
terribly long ago, so that seems to be the bigger question.
If Metrowerks is still on the fence on this decision, let me state how
I use the Windows compiler, and maybe the decision would be to cut
features rather than kill it altogether.
First of all, I never create MFC apps in CW. If MFC stuff went
bye-bye, I wouldn't care. Secondly, I rarely use the Windows hosted
version of CW, so if you do kill it, at least let me continue to
cross-compile x86 code from my Mac. Since Windows GUI stuff I create
in RealBasic, the only thing I really need to do is write my core
DLL's in C/C++, and also the occassional Win32 console app. A basic
x86 compiler should hopefully remain an easy thing for you to do, as I
imagine it's the Windows IDE that is the tough thing to update.
Kill MFC if you must, but let me keep my other Windows
cross-compilation on my Mac. Hopefully, you will find a way to keep
the Windows-hosted product as well. I know you guys use Altura's
Mac2Win to ****t your product to Windows, and Mac2Win is increasingly
becoming long in the tooth. If the next rev of the IDE is built with
something other than PowerPlant, say a cross-platform framework like
Qt or CPLAT, perhaps you will not have to give up Windows at all.
Thanks for listening to my ramblings.
Jonathan Hoyle
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