My main concern was future PALM OS versions and it sounds like POL would 
need a major re-write for 6.x?

Does metrowerks plan on having a C++ framework for 6.x?

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Ben Combee wrote:

> At 15:29 2003-3-19 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Wow.  Does this mean Metrowerks has no plan to take over the source code
> >for future versions?  This is a serious blow to us here...
> 
> We do not have the rights to modify the source for POL, just to 
> redistribute it.
> 
> I don't see why this is a serious blow.  You have the source yourself, and 
> you can maintain and extend POL for your own use.  The framework is mature, 
> and we had no plans to ship new POL features beyond those included with the 
> V9 product.  It is unlikely that POL will be easily portable to future 
> versions of Palm OS due to a changed programming model, but the current POL 
> works very well for Palm OS versions through the 5.x series.
> 
> 

-- 
Glenn Ford
National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, MD. USA


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