On 7 Jun 2003 at 15:23, Jari Williamsson wrote: > David H. Bailey writes: > > > Perhaps, given the tardiness in making Finale fully OSX compliant, it is > > the Mac market which is the drag these days. > > Avoiding to make this into a OS war issue, I think the OSX development > will benefit both platforms in the end. Although the rewrite for OSX > undoubtedly takes a lot of development time, some of the core of Finale > perhaps gets rewritten, ancient code fragments are thrown out, it gets > easier to add more "advanced" stuff on both platforms in the future (since > Mac now have many things that Win32 has had for years, like easy multi- > threaded multitasking, a good set of user controls, etc).
And the best part: if they code for OS X in the right way, it's about halfway to a Linux port (obviously, Aqua-specific code would not port). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
