Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: sumner@metrowerks.com (Joel Sumner) Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.codewarrior Subject: Re: (ANN)CodeWarrior for Net Yaroze Release 2 Available Now Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:50:26 -0500 Organization: Metrowerks Lines: 73 Message-ID: References: <33A5A070.6343@austin.metrowerks.com> <33ACC01D.718E@znet.com> <33B13543.52B7@austin.metrowerks.com> <01bc8c03$939160a0$61f90398@mcs2.duke.edu> <33C3D594.2AB8@halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.214.227.194 X-Newsreader: Anawave Gravity v1.10 Hi Eli, Thanks for the kind words. We try to be as responsive as possible to customer requests, both positive and negative. To answer some of the questions put forward by Mike Strauss... In article <01bc8c03$939160a0$61f90398@mcs2.duke.edu>, mcs2@acpub.duke.edu says... > Will the next version of CW have floating point emulation built into the > compiler? Yes. This will be in the update CD that we send out in August or may be a netborne patch sooner. > 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). Are we ever going to see a Windows native version > of CW? Yes. We are going to be giving the Windows version of the IDE a more "Windows-standard" appearance so that it will look and feel more like your standard Windows app. I can't give a timeline when it will be "perfect", but I think it will come in incremental steps. IDE 2.0 was the first step by providing real keymappings, etc.. To allay any Mac user's fears, the Mac IDE isn't going to become more Windows'ish, just the Windows IDE will get this treatment. > I don't want to be too negative, so I'd like to complement Metrowerks on > the changes made in CW 2.0. It is a useable product, and it has allowed me > to move back to NT as my development platform. Thanks. We love getting positive as well as negative feedback. > By the way, I can't print from CW 2.0 in Win95 or NT. CW prints the first > page of each file and labels it "page 0". I'll submit this as a bug report. In article <33C3D594.2AB8@halcyon.com>, gromit@halcyon.com says... > > 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. -- ------------------------- PlayStation Debugger Dude Metrowerks