[G4] software question for mac
Kevin Avery
pipergeek at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 05:29:16 PDT 2005
On 6/3/05, Alex <lists at lexial.ca> wrote:
>
> On Jun 3, 2005, at 04:13, Ron Steinke wrote:
>
> > appears to me that fewer and fewer developers are creating hybrid
> > programs
>
> Reality check. There ain't no such beast as Mac/Win "hybrid programs".
>
> Some developers find it more convenient to distribute both Win and Mac
> versions of their software on the same CD (Type-on-Call comes in three
> flavours -- Win, Mac, Unix -- on the same CD). The CDs may be hybrid,
> but the software isn't. The decision to do so or not is a purely
> business decision.
>
Also consider that newer programs are larger in size. So there is a
strong possibility that a mac/win hybrid disk is not possible simply
because there isn't enough room on one CD for them.
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