RobbieP opened this issue on Sep 17, 2002 ยท 17 posts
dbutenhof posted Tue, 17 September 2002 at 4:42 PM
CL has been saying all along that they were going to do a Mac version that will run on Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. The current announcement is that they expect to announce "soon" when it will be available. They've been saying that for quite a while now, so "soon" is clearly a fairly relative and unbounded time. Still, they at least have basically good intentions. They've passed out some suggestions that they don't have programmers familiar with Carbon interfaces (which are slightly different from the old OS 9 toolbox) and that they were having some difficulties with their porting efforts. (With no details, it's hard to know how to take that.) A month ago, remember, (or at least I do), that the Windows people were expressing the same concerns about the Windows version. CL kept saying "soon", and "trust me", and at that point the CL web site hadn't even been updated in over a year. Clearly CL has been going through some difficult times. What they're trying to accomplish is ambitious in the first place. They've got lots of Windows version bugs to find and fix, and I won't mind at all having them finish that before they release the Mac version. (It's bad enough we have to wait: but I'd hate to have to wait and then go through all the same initial problems the Windows guys had because CL did the Mac port before fixing them.) So just hang on a bit, and we'll see what happens.