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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW 3.1 update extended indefinitely
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Date: 2 May 90 16:39:22 GMT
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In article <1990May2.071040.19290@agate.berkeley.edu> 
39clocks@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
> I don't know about you, but I think that APDA is going about this MPW 
Suite
> thing the wrong way.  In case you are unfamiliar with the concept, I will
> briefly explain it as I understand it.
[Lots of good points deleted for the sake of brevity]

This all sounds pretty good except for a few points:

1) (Fact) SADE is a separate beast from the MPW suite, and (Opinion) I'm
   pretty sure that lots of people would balk at the idea of having to pay for
   its inclusion on the CD-ROM.

2) (Opinion) Putting precompiled MacApp in all of the possible incarnations
   that people would want it in on the CD-ROM would be silly--there are too
   many permutations to make that practical.

3) (Opinion) if you want a good class library, MacApp is an _excellent_ class
   library, and it's worth buying the Pascal compiler just to be able to use
   it, even if you're writing in C++.

4) (Fact) it is considerably less expensive for us to produce a single CD-ROM
   than for us to produce 24 floppies.

Basically apart from the precompiled MacApp problem, the other suggestions 
seem good aside from minor logistical quibbles (like that 
shipping a CD-ROM _and_ a couple of floppies would pose a logistical 
hassle).  Still, I don't think that's an overriding concern.

Rick?  Or anyone else from APDA?

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                                Paul Snively
                      Macintosh Developer Technical Support
                             Apple Computer, Inc.

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