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From: Rainer S. <rai...@ku...> - 2008-10-21 19:04:15
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Cooooool! Great news!!! I'm looking forward to this. I have a Intel MBP, Leopard and the latest XCode. So if it's easy to compile a I could try to follow a cook-book to give you some feedback - but I won't be able to offer more than it works, yes or no :). As to downwards-compatibility: in my impression Mac-Users, especially in the music domain, are highly update-friendly. I'd doubt there are many users even of Panther left. But maybe I am wrong ... :). Best Rainer On 21.10.2008, at 20:21, Anthony Kozar wrote: > Hello to everyone interested in the future of Bol Processor! > > I want to let all of you know that last week we began the next round > of > development for Bol Processor 2. The last update (2.9.6) revived the > project and brought it to the world of Mac OS X users. While this > was a > significant step forward, we realized at the time that we were still > one > step behind Apple and Mac OS X development. > > BP 2.9.6 is a Mac OS X-native application that runs natively on > PowerPC Macs > and under Rosetta on Intel Macs. That version of BP was also built > using > the commercial CodeWarrior development tools that were not available > to most > other interested developers and targeted Mac OS X 10.2. The current > standard for Mac development is to create "Universal Binaries" that > run > natively on both PPC and Intel on 10.4 or 10.5 and that are built with > Apple's XCode development tools (available for free to all OS X > users). > > So, I have upgraded one of my own computers to OS X 10.5 "Leopard" > and have > begun the process of converting BP2 to build with XCode. Once that is > finished (probably later this week), then I will begin making > changes and > testing for Intel-compatibility using a Universal Binary version of > BP2. > > I will announce on this list when a working XCode project is > available. > Anyone else who is interested in trying to build and test BP2 is > encouraged > to give this a try! I will help you get the tools set-up if > necessary. > Other developers are invited to start contributing ideas and/or code > as > well. > > BP2 users can help us at this stage by providing some feedback. > With the > current round of changes, it seems likely that we will have to stop > supporting the "Classic" Mac OS (versions 7 to 9) in new versions of > BP2. > BP 2.9.6 also ran on OS X 10.2 or higher but 10.2 is about 6-7 years > old now > and the latest XCode versions do not directly support building > software for > 10.2. That does not mean it is impossible for us to continue > supporting > 10.2 but I would like to know whether we need to consider it. We > may be > able to take advantage of newer OS technologies and better user > interface > designs if we drop support for older versions of OS X. > > So, which versions and architectures (PPC or Intel) of Mac OS do you > want to > be able to run BP2 on? What new features would you like to see? > > Thanks, as always, for your interest and feedback concerning Bol > Processor! > > > Anthony Kozar > mailing-lists-1001 AT anthonykozar DOT net > http://anthonykozar.net/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > bolprocessor-devel mailing list > bol...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bolprocessor-devel > > |
