Re: Intel source code release
Re: Intel source code release
- Subject: Re: Intel source code release
- From: Michael Bartosh <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:36:56 -0700
On Feb 17, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
Nine months of really hard work by the folks at Apple, who rightly
decided
that it was more important to deliver a kick-ass x86 operating
system than
to spend forever trying to package the sources for third-party
consumption.
This is a joke really because it was rushed by management and
the software is no where near ready. Look at the compiler for an
example, Apple did not update to a newer version of GCC during that
time which means they are behind in speed in general anyways.
Projects got pushed back because of this switch. An example is the
move to dwarf2 debugging and multiple other things.
Nine months is not enough time to do a proper release of any kind of
big software as Mac OS X.
-- Pinski
A GCC developer which gets little credit from Apple for
keeping GCC working on Darwin (even on x86 lately).
Apple has to do what's best for Apple overall. I'm in a similar
position- I work with a lot of the IT centric segments of Apple's
market, and we have a very specific set of needs that doesn't always
align with Apple's vision of its own roadmap. The Intel transition
could have been handled differently there, in a way that was easier
for IT customers to plan for and deal with. This doesn't mean it was
handled badly- just that there's room for improvement. And some of
the things that could have made it easier (keeping the PPC iMac in
production longer, for instance) might have (and I'm only guessing
here) detracted from Apple's overall goals somehow.
It takes years of careful advocacy to get Apple to broaden its focus
even a little bit. That's somewhat unfortunate but in this case I can
only assume Apple had specific goals that were more important to it
organizationally than dwarf2 debugging.
Apple did a great job of bringing a consumer platform to market. I'm
assuming that's what they set out to do. I certainly hope we see a
source release soon. I am specifically ansey about booter.efi. My
customers need to know how that thing works.
-mb
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