Subject: Re: factors to consider for the Mac port
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 07:57:44 CST
At 07:14 AM 2/10/00 -0500, DeRobertis wrote:
>At 1:34 PM -0500 on 2/9/00, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> >At 06:36 PM 2/9/00 +0100, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >>-we should find a way to generate MacOS resources for strings.
> >
> > Why? Keeping them just as they are is a MUCH safer way to go for
> >making sure the Mac port always matches the others. Also, it's makes the
> >localizations issues easier!
>
>The strings & icons can be autoconverted by the MPW makefile,
If we were using MPW for our build system (and someone built the
tool) then you're right. But right now, we're using CodeWarrior so it's
not an option...
>and Mac
>users don't expect (for good reason) a bunch of tiny support files to
>go with every app.
If they are in a folder, it doesn't matter. It's no different
than any other kind of plug-in, AND it means less platform-centric code we
have to worry about...
Leonard
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