At 18:24 2003-1-29 +0100, you wrote:
The reasons are business related.Thanks for the explanation. (But what I don't understand is how licensees can build native apps then. And if they can, what is the reason (be it technical or commercial) that regular developpers can't).
PalmSource doesn't want a ARM-native API available that will cause applications to be tied to the specifics of Palm OS 5. The don't want two breaks where developers have to learn new APIs, just the one big one that will happen with the next big Palm OS release. They also don't want developers to have to change tool sets twice. OS 5 was originally intended to be a stopgap OS release, to be quickly followed by their new ARM-native OS, and because of this, going and documenting the internals of something that wouldn't be around long didn't make sense.
If you really are doing a radical media player for the Palm OS, you ought to try to get sponsorship from Sony or Palm or another licensee. The only way to do fully native OS 5 apps is with their cooperation.
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