> On Nov 14, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev > <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > >>>>> Convert resources from ResEdit >>> DUDE. This is what, 20 years overdue? > > Dude. Why would we change them before it was necessary? Don't fix it if > it ain't broke. There were better things to work on in the past 20 years. > > We wrote code to go through each type of resource and convert them to XML. > Then that turned out to be a huge PITA to maintain, so we revised it to tab > text. Easy to revise in Excel and 10x faster to load. > > My question is, why on earth didn't Apple provide a conversion tool like > that? It would have saved thousands of developers from having to write > their own resource translators or do it by hand. > > Casey McDermott > TurtleSoft.com
They did. It's called derez. It's still available on Catalina. -- Glenn L. Austin, Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver <>< <http://www.austinsoft.com> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
