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Cross-Platform As Long As It's Windows, Solaris, Linux/x86?

Mike Shoemaker is not happy about the fact that the recently released Together Designer Community Edition is not available for Mac OS X.

Why on earth would one write a Java program, which supposedly runs anywhere a JVM is available, and then restricts its usefulness by locking it into a platform specific installer?

This is plain silly.

If your program is truly pure Java, at least provide a generic zip bundle so that it can be installed on all these other platforms that are not Windows, Solaris or Linux/x86.

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on August 3, 2004 7:43:11 AM CDT #


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Re: Cross-Platform As Long As It's Windows, Solaris, Linux/x86?

Comment from Joseph Ottinger on August 3, 2004 9:17:42 AM CDT #
I agree - and it's one of the reasons Eclipse drives me mad, because it's Java but it's platform-specific due to SWT.
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Re: Cross-Platform As Long As It's Windows, Solaris, Linux/x86?

Comment from Mike Shoemaker on August 3, 2004 11:42:15 AM CDT #
The kicker is that they have a OS X "port" for the pay for versions! Way to kick the Mac users in the teeth.
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Re: Cross-Platform As Long As It's Windows, Solaris, Linux/x86?

Comment from Weiqi Gao on August 3, 2004 2:29:41 PM CDT #

Maybe it's time for a "Install Linux version of Together Designer CE on Mac OS X HOWTO", à la WebLogic Workshop on Mac OS X (from Linux Installer).

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Re: Cross-Platform As Long As It's Windows, Solaris, Linux/x86?

Comment from Mike Shoemaker on August 3, 2004 9:27:40 PM CDT #
Actually, Id rather have Mac people boycott their products :)
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Re: Cross-Platform As Long As It's Windows, Solaris, Linux/x86?

Comment from Simon Brown on August 4, 2004 6:59:41 AM CDT #
I also noticed this when I tried to download Together - has anybody tried the Linux distro? Hmmm.... ;-)
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Together Designer CE on Mac OS X (from Linux installer)

TrackBack from Simon Brown's weblog on August 4, 2004 3:18:53 PM CDT #

Following on from Weiqi's "Cross-Platform As Long As It's Windows, Solaris, Linux/x86?", I decided to install Together from the Linux installer.


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