Re: Apple moving to Intel 2005-06-08 - By Eric Winemiller
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Jasen,
I don't have any inside knowledge, this is all pure speculation on my
part, but I would be really surprised if metrowerks doesn't update
codewarrior to support both platforms. That's what those guys do, have
you ever seen the list of all stuff they can compile to, amazing? You
can compile an x86 binary with Codewarrior now, so I suspect they would
just need to update the header files and rebuild the libraries to make
everything Mac x86 capable.
They may of course decide to skip it at which point eovia probably would
not have a choice and the next version of Carrara would have to be made
XCode friendly. That would certainly make a lot of plug-in developers
happy, myself included, Codewarrior is an expensive upgrade every couple
of years and it would be about 15-20 plug-ins a year I don't have to
sell to stay in business.
Since Codewarrior makes it easy to target multiple platforms and Xcode
now makes it easy to target multiple platforms, either would result in
the same support from eovia. I can't imagine them cutting off PPC Macs
any time soon, they will be the majority for probably the next 4 years
and a sizable chunk for another 4 years after that. Charles has
mentioned several times that he doesn't like to do platform specific
optimizations so there is no Altivec code or anything like that which
would need to be fixed. I do have a little work to do in Anything Grows
right now since it assumes not win32 = check for altivec, now it would
be not win32 = check for altivec, check for SSE. Based on the timing
some future version of Carrara will most likely be for windows, Mactel,
and Mac PPC.
My only concern right now as a plug-in developer is eovia's 64bit plans.
If they are going to support G5-64bit, then I'll need to get one of
those and keep it around. Otherwise the next Mac upgrade will be a Mactel.
Personally I can't wait for a dual core Pentium M powerbook that I can
dual boot windows on or run windows apps full speed using Wine and/or
Virtual PC. I will be able to not purchase/eliminate/consolidate 3
machines with that.
Regards,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
3D plug-ins for Carrara
http://digitalcarversguild.com
Jasen Jacobsen wrote:
> Interesting to see the other thread about Apple's move to Intel take
> off, but this one go nowhere.
>
> People seem to be missing the most important factor for Carrara users
> & developers: Metrowerks is dead. All development must be done with
> XCode (according to Steve's keynote). If Eovia wants to continue
> supporting the Mac market they're going to have to expend resources
> shifting over to the new development environment. That could be
> trivial or could be a significant investment.
>
> Now, MAYBE Metrowerks will incorporate a Mac x86 target as well?
>
> To me, that is the real interest for this group: What does this shift
> by Apple mean to Eovia's support of the Mac platform?
>
> - Jasen.
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