A special developer release of Mac OS-hosted CodeWarrior tools for Carbon and Mac OS X was introduced by Greg Galanos, president and chief technology officer at Metrowerks, during today's Metrowerks session at Apple's 1999 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose. Attendees received a copy of CodeWarrior tools that support Mac OS X development with CodeWarrior Professional, Release 4. These tools will be released to all CodeWarrior licensees as a part of CodeWarrior for Mac OS, Release 5, which ships in June.
Metrowerks' new tools include updated versions of PowerPlant and the Metrowerks Standard Libraries conforming to the Carbon APIs. With these tools, developers can start porting applications to the Carbon Application Environment for Mac OS X with tools running under Mac OS 8. In particular, developers use remote debugging features in these tools to perform source-level debugging of applications and shared libraries running on Mac OS X target from the Mac OS 8 host system.
"Metrowerks has carefully tracked Apple's development of Mac OS X and has provided the tools developers require to start their transition to the Carbon Application Environment and the Mac OS X operating system," said Mr.Galanos. "Using CodeWarrior on Mac OS 8, developers can transition rapidly and painlessly to Carbon by using their favorite IDE and tools to cross-compile and source-level debug their applications on Carbon/Mac OS X. The same tools can be used to build Mac OS 8 or Mac OS X applications using the Carbon APIs and the new CodeWarrior tools."
Special Renewal Price Extended Through June 30th
Metrowerks has extended the current renewal pricing through June 30, 1999. Existing CodeWarrior customers in the USA and Canada who update to Release 5 before June 30th will be charged a renewal price of US$299 and will receive both CodeWarrior for MacOS, Professional Edition Release 5 and CodeWarrior for Windows, Professional Edition Release 5. Customers who update to Release 5 after June 30th will fall under the pricing policy that went into effect on May 1, 1999. Customers outside the USA and Canada should contact their local distributor for information on renewal pricing and policy. Further information on the special renewal pricing is available at www.metrowerks.com/support/policy/transition.
