Slashdot is covering [[http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/31/069238|the end of CodeWarrior for Mac]]. Metrowerks has announced that CodeWarrior Pro 10 (a minor update at best) will be the final release of CodeWarrior for Mac. It will not support Intel.
CodeWarrior for Windows is already dead.
No official news on CodeWarrior for Palm out of Metrowerks, but I doubt it will see another update without significant changes within Metrowerks. Metrowerks does not seem to exist anymore, except as a support system for Freescale’s embedded chips.
Palm, having a good tool-chain for Palm OS 5.x is important to the platform. PalmSource is focusing their efforts on Palm OS/Linux, and Metrowerks is completely lacking focus. Thus, it falls to you to provide one if you want the platform to prosper. Make it happen.
(Although unless Palm is stupid, they started this a year ago.)
August 1st, 2005 at 4:27 am
CW for Palm OS V9 is being restocked by Metrowerks, but there are no plans to update the toolset. IMO, the V9 release works well for producing Palm OS Garnet applications. There are a few updates I’d make if I was still there, but nothing major. On the topic of non-Garnet OSes, PalmSource has done a good job preparing an Eclipse-based environment for Palm OS Cobalt and I assume they will do something similar for Palm OS for Linux. The limitations of prc-tools for 68K programming don’t apply to the ARM tools for Cobalt.
August 1st, 2005 at 6:20 am
Aside from the broken command line compilers (which is pretty important going forward, since it would have allowed uers to escape the IDE when it ultimately breaks), Codewarrior for Palm is in pretty good shape. But we’re in a position right now where it could break with any update of Windows, and Metrowerks lacks the resources (and motivation) to fix it.