Re: CodeWarrior for Windows Discontinued?

In article <1113433284.421988.181740@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "jonhoyle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <jonhoyle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

Metrowerks has discontinued the sale and development of its Intel x86 
compilers.  This technology is used in Symbian development and was 
acquired by Nokia last year.   

Metrowerks will continue to provide online sup****t for Windows on our 
CodeWarrior Community Forum and USENET newsgroups and will continue to 
take bug re****ts submitted to sup****t@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

If you already have a license to use CodeWarrior for Windows this does 
not affect your license to use those tools.

This also affected our Mac Hosted x86 cross compilers and we are not 
licensing the x86 tools any more.  

We are currently looking at our options but I don't see any great desire 
to be in the Windows market.   This may be a good deal for our Mac 
hosted tools as we no longer have to worry about cross compatibility.

Ron


>We just upgraded to CodeWarrior 9.4 on both our Mac and Windows
>machines just a couple of weeks ago, so I know that it was just
>recently sup****ted.
>
>However, when I went to Metrowerks' product web site at
>www.metrowerks.com/mw/products/default.htm , I see that it has been
>removed.  When I went to the Metrowerks store to the Buy section, I see
>only the Macintosh and other products listed now.  When I click on the
>Windows link, I get "No error message found. (Error Number: 31016935 -
>0)".  On some other pages, the Windows link has been removed
>altogether.  I even went to the Metrowerks Site Map at
>http://www.metrowerks.com/MW/siteMap/default.htm
and clicked on all the
>Windows links and got the error message "No default posting specified
>for this channel" for each one of them.
>
>I further went on to the "Metrowerks Discontinued Products" page at
>www.metrowerks.com/Discontinued/default.htm but did not see the Windows
>compiler there (however, other discontinued products (such as Lattitude
>and the Java compiler) was absent as well).
>
>Despite my surprise, I frankly could live with the fact that the
>Windows-hosted tools are being discontinued.  They were never an
>im****tant factor to me, although they were admittedly a very nice
>debugging convenience to have.  For me what is more im****tant is for
>the Windows compiler to live on on the Mac-hosted tools.  It is always
>very nice to be able to cross-compile to Windows when needs be.  If the
>Windows compiler disappears off BOTH the Windows and Mac-hosted tools,
>one of the biggest advantages CodeWarrior has over Xcode will be lost.
>
>Jonathan Hoyle
>

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