Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: eli curtz Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.codewarrior Subject: Re: (ANN)CodeWarrior for Net Yaroze Release 2 Available Now Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 11:16:56 -0700 Organization: SCEA Net Yaroze News Lines: 47 Message-ID: <33C3D594.2AB8@halcyon.com> References: <33A5A070.6343@austin.metrowerks.com> <33ACC01D.718E@znet.com> <33B13543.52B7@austin.metrowerks.com> <01bc8c03$939160a0$61f90398@mcs2.duke.edu> Reply-To: gromit@halcyon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lcy-pm0-ip14.halcyon.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Mike Strauss wrote (we'll he might have written part of it): > > Besides the incomplete compiler, the > most obvious flaw in the product is that it is a port from a minority > platform to a majority platform. I, along with nearly every other CW user, > would like to see a real Windows version of the product; something designed > in Windows, for Windows, and using Windows standard components and layouts > (consult MS styleguide). > > Thanks > > Mike Strauss > mcs2@acpub.duke.edu Although I agree that the Windows CW sounds like it needs improvement I must make some comments: 1) Being a port isn't a flaw - only being a bad port. 2) NEARLY EVERY OTHER CW user couldn't care less about the Windows version (except that we want MW to make money and flourish) CW will be a majority Mac product for awhile still. 3) If you have specific objections to the product design tell Metrowerks - in my experience they've been pretty good about listening (I've never seen a Windows app (port or otherwise) that seemed to follow any sort of styleguide, but thats a different issue.) I'm not trying to be particularly critical here, after all as a Mac user I've suffered through hundreds of horrible ports - I just want to suggest that if you tell Metrowerks about your specific bugs and issues I believe that they'll do a good job about addressing them. Again I'm mainly just trying to say that I'm concerned that Metrowerks seems to be getting a bad reputation among PC users based on a fairly early product (I won't agure that they shouldn't have waited to release until it was right) I've been happy with their Macintosh products for years, so I hope that PC users will be rewarded with an equally great development environment if they stick it out, and tell Metrowerks what you want, not what you dislike. (No I don't work for/with Metrowerks - blah, blah, blah. No I haven't been getting sleep and this may make no sense. Tune in next week for "My computer can kick your computer's butt".) eli curtz gromit@halcyon.com PS I've used MS Visual C++ - it can't be worse than that. (I hope)