"CodeWarrior is DEAD" > Now it is. At the time Poser 6 was written, Xcode was still at version 1.5, > which with all due respect, sucked. I never stated that XCode was superior to CW. Indeed today I still lament some of it's functionality (debugger anyone?). And let's not delve into "optimisation"... However, even when XCode was at version 1.5, Metrowerks was well on its way to finishing seppuku, which it has now gloriously (and ineptly, I may say) acomplished. > And no, you don't have to do a "full rewrite" to get a MachO version, an > Xcode version or a Universal Binary. No, of course, but you do have to do a port, which is (almost) never a trivial thing (even between versions of a same toolset), whatever marketing slugs may say to the contrary. In this case, I would guess there is quite some platform-specific tweaking to make it run acceptably, and I would think that part has to be largely re-invented for the MacTel. I would not like to face the prospect of running Poser under Rosetta, for speed reasons alone, not to mention extensions building problems... > Shade on the Mac is built with Xcode and will ship as Universal Binary soon > (Version 8.5). Shade has a PoserFusion plugin (also built in Xcode) and > guess what the core of PoserFusion is...(hint: the plugin file is called > MiniPoser.shdplugin). This is a good portent, at the very least! I eagerly await my free upgrade from Shade 8 to Shade 8.5 (even though it will probably be at least a year before I can buy a MacTel, Shade 8.5 seems just great!). Well, for the other side of the fence, even though the processors will not change much for them, I would think the forever forthcomming "New" OS from redmont will throw a few curves in the development of Poser as well, so perhaps the porting to XCode could help there too (if only by forcing a clean-up of the cross-platform part of the code). And, who knows, with a clean(er) code, and bold ambitions, they might perhaps be tempted to cater to the Linux crowd as well (OK, this is a totally speculative presumption on my complete outsider part). After all, D|S does not. And Python does. Hubert Holin