Hi !
Tony Wyatt wrote:
It may turn out to be like the OS4 development - it made sense to build for the 68k platform first, allowing progress to be made, before they were able to move over to the PPC hardware when it became available. It may be the same with OOo, since not everyone has an A1, but I prefer to think that Linux PPC will be the first target.
That's a totally different thing. OS 4 development had to be started on 68k first simply because the PPc kernel (ExecSG) had to be developed first. Now we may face the fact that some developers don't have an A1 but that's surely no showstopper for starting on OS 4 directly. Doing a 68k version first may please the Amithlon and MOS users (It won't work on a classic, believe me ;-)) but apart from that doesn't gain anything. The team would have to port the stuff over afterwards and there's also a big danger that new features and the stricter rules of OS 4 are not used, i.e. less quality with more work.
regards
Alexander Lohrmann