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Re: Apple's Tools Strategy

On Oct 28, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Turtle Creek Software <email@hidden> wrote: 
7. I'd be curious what % of developers used/use PowerPlant?  We would
sure appreciate having an improved version of that for OSX, so we can
concentrate on coding features within our product niche, rather than
basic system functions.

An improved PowerPlant, or a replacement? PPX was an incomplete alternative, and the open source PowerPlant project seems to be progressing very slowly (though I haven't been watching it that closely). I wrote my own PowerPlant replacement, ACCELA, but I haven't seen much interest in it. There are various possible reasons:

- People are sticking with PP because it's too much trouble to change
- Most people prefer to roll their own, and now we're all fragmented because PP had no clear successor
- People are using Cocoa instead
- People are using plain Carbon calls instead; Carbon does a lot more than it used to, so there's less need for frameworks like PP
- People don't like my approach, and/or I'm just bad at marketing :)

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David Catmull
email@hidden
http://www.uncommonplace.com/

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