Re: MacOS dev tools. (was: Re: More psiconv woes)


Subject: Re: MacOS dev tools. (was: Re: More psiconv woes)
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 17:41:26 CST


On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:58:13PM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 3:21 PM -0600 1/22/01, Sam TH wrote:
> >3) MPW, which you don't use, has a command line enviroment, but it
> >isn't powerful enough to handle what we do with Makefiles.
> >
> MPW can most certainly handle everything we do with
> Makefiles, HOWEVER it's a different make language (don't ask why,
> it's a LONG story!) and so it would mean rewritting all of the
> makefiles anyway.
>
> Also, any professional Mac OS programmer has CodeWarrior.
> MPW is only used by a few "hobbyists" who don't wish to pay for CW
> (which is understandable if you're not using it full time). And MPW
> is being phased out along with teh move to Mac OS X, so it's not
> (IMNSHO) worth the investment.

So, the upshot here is that CW projects are the only way to go here,
unless we try cross-compiling (aaaaah)? Too bad. Unified build
systems are nice.

But if that is the case, we should try to get the project files into
the tree.
           
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