I imagine that the transition should go fairly smoothly. Rosette seems like it will work pretty well for many applications that can't compile right away for x86. By that I mean that from reports it seems like users will be able to run the applications without noticing too much of a speed lag if any at all.
From reports around the internet it seems that Apple might be ahead of schedule. That's all just speculation, so it's hard to say one way or another.
Anyway, my plan at this time is to release universal binaries for each of my applications around the time that the Intel machines start to ship (or possibly sooner). I'll hope to be able to make all of the universal binaries run on the same PPC platforms that they do right now. The information to target different settings for different architectures was buried deep in Apple's documentation, but it looks like it should be possible to get universal binaries that can work on all systems down to the ones that are currently supported. I don't have a way of testing on Intel machines, so I'll have to rely on community feedback (I have recieved a report that Senuti runs just fine on OS X for x86 when compiled for the x86 machines and don't know how it does under Rosette, but that shouldn't be an issue).
I'm posting this to give anyone who strongly objects the chance to do so, but I don't see any reason that anyone would.
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Copyrights have been around for a long time. I think the first time I really had the idea behind the legal issues behind copyrights was when I was in sixth grade. It was when writing a paper for school. I doubt everyone is told about copyrights for papers in 6th grade, but I would assume that many if not most people learned about them during high-school. Why? Again, research papers.
Having to write countless bibliographies or works cited pages has gotten tedious through the years. It's not that hard to do, though. It takes about ten seconds to find all of the information that you need from a book and write it down. The point? To give the author credit for the work. I've written a good number of things in my life, some of them might not be all that impressive, but they are my words, my thoughts put out there on paper (or online if you please). I have never filed with the US Copyright Office and registered any of my pieces of writing, but I don't have all that much reason to. Technically my writings are copyrighted the second that they're written. According to law, in fact, they are.
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Well it's been a long time since I've written anything here. In part I haven't written anything because I wanted to keep the Coder Wanted post from August up as long as possible. (AmbitiousLemon is still looking for a Coder for the project.) The other reason is because I've been extremely busy with school. I've had a little free time recently, though, and have updated the site slightly.
I've wanted for a long time to update the site to something like this, and I'm pleased with the way that it turned out. I hope everyone likes it!
On another note, Senuti 0.29 flew past all previous releases in the number of initial downloads. I'd like to send thanks out to everyone who has helped spread the word recently, and please keep letting your friends know!
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